Dan O'Brien Quotes
The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'
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How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
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It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.
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I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.
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I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.
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Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a criminal lawyer, it's pretty easy to come up with some interesting plots.
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They should all have their own speech patterns with their own tics and little foibles. It's fun working all that out ahead of time.
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When you say that you write romantic fiction, there are a lot of people who have an image in their mind of the 'bodice ripper.' It's the one term that most romantic fiction writers absolutely hate because it has no bearing on what people are writing.
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People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you'll never see the headlines say, 'Six billion people got along rather well today.' You'll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other.
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When people ask me what I think is my best work, it's the bus. There're lots of books, but there's only one bus.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
