Daniel O'Sullivan Quotes
The superabundance alludes to the myth that is ensuring our demise but it's also the space around and possibly the void that we enter into, beyond that delusion.
Quotes to Explore
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Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
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I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
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Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?
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The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.
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Administrators are there because of the fans and the cricketers to run this game, so credibility of a game, or a board, or even a government for that matter, is important irrespective of what you do. If you are in public life, it is important.
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It is interesting to note that life never leaves us stranded. If life hands us a problem, it hands us also the abilities with which to meet the problem.
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When I was 12 or 13, I started to watch films and understand more about the craft and that helped me to develop. But it also felt like a game, because it was fun. I mean, all of us do it when we're kids to a degree - play acting. But then I came to realise that it's a lovely way to express yourself. So, my passion for it developed as I got older.
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I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.
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Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.
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It is intelligent to have a plan, but neurotic to fall in love with it.
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There is no love where there is no will.
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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
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The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.
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I think fashion is repulsive. The whole idea that someone else can make clothing that is supposed to be in style and make other people look good is ridiculous. It sickens me to think that there is an industry that plays to the low self-esteem of the general public. I would like the fashion industry to collapse.
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God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.
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What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
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Even if all I did was stay away... it's still the best thing I ever did in my life.
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Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope, belief, vast as a sky, and colored by a thimbleful of matter in the shape of knowledge....wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions: starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be. Just because Miss Brooke was hasty in her trust, it is not therefore clear that Mr. Casaubon was unworthy of it.
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I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can cook up, with non-existent budgets. I didn’t want to be surrounded by comforts and colleagues, which you have when you’re a big time director. I wanted to write personal works.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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True revolution comes not when we learn to ignore our fat and pretend we're no different, but when we learn to use it to our advantage, when we learn to deconstruct all the myths that propagate fat-hate.
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The superabundance alludes to the myth that is ensuring our demise but it's also the space around and possibly the void that we enter into, beyond that delusion.
