Darcy O'Brien Quotes
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.
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I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.
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I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.
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Our troops do an incredible job every single day, but our policymakers have not lived up to the sacrifices that our troops make every day.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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We have to slow down the emissions of carbon dioxide and methane from coal burning, oil and eventually natural gas... And the best ways to do that are energy efficiency and a switch to renewables.
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I hate Alzheimer's. It is one of the most awful things because, here is a loved one, this is the woman or man that you have loved for 20, 30, 40 years, and suddenly, that person is gone. They're gone. They are gone.
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I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.
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Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.
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I think that talented people really do have insecurities, and that is one of the things that kind of motivates them, because that's one thing they know they're good at. And when they're up on that stage, you can do no wrong. The audience is yours; they're there to see you.
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Isolation is a big part of songwriting.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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It is a myth to think that sometimes creative disagreement doesn't necessarily produce a better result.
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What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.
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Earned a bachelor's at 27, then an M.F.A. that is still completely unused and in mint condition, never taken out of the box.
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I prefer the new me a million times more over than the old one.
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Don't fake enthusiasms. Say what you think, not what you think you ought to think.
