Dan O'Brien Quotes
When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.
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It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.
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Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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I think women have the right to consult their own wishes, needs, and capacities and produce only loved, wanted children they can care for - or even no children at all. I think we would all be better off as a society if we respected women's ability to make these decisions for themselves and concentrated on caring well for the born.
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
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I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.
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The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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I can't be bought. I don't need to be bought. I'm not a careerist. I don't need to have a career in politics. I'm in a very, very luxurious position, but I am in a position of strength.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.
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Schmoozers are brownnosers, sycophants more suited to middle management than to the Wild West of the entrepreneurial world.
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With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.
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The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.
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You have to be brave when you've got a kid.
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If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
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I do have fun writing, and a long time ago, I told myself, 'You got to have fun at this, or it'll drive you nuts.'
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The idea in being a painter is to declare an identity. Not just my identity, an identity for me, but an identity big enough for everyone to share in. Isn't that what it's all about?!
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A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
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With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.
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Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.
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When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.
