Alex O'Loughlin Quotes

I don't know what I'm really good at. I'm really good at sittin' by the pool. I have to work at that. I'm really bad at auditioning.

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• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Mother

• If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Good
  • Work
  • Write

• Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesn't feel familiar any more.

  

  Feist
  • Life
  • Good
  • Interesting

• Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • Work
  • Education

• It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Work
  • English
  • Language

• Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

  

  Ovid
  • Good
  • Pain
  • Strength

• I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?

  

  Dan Gelber
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  • Judgment
  • Behavior

• Quality is everyone's responsibility.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Quality

• A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.

  

  Jack Bowman
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  • Done
  • Art

• When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.

  

  Valerie June
  • Loved
  • Whitney Houston

• The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern Turkey. They're all intertwined.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Imagination

• My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.

  

  Rachel Bilson
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  • Good
  • Great

• Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Judgment

• I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Good
  • Music
  • Song

• Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a microscope for hours on end. When I was 13, I saved up $100 to buy a good used microscope. I was obsessed with microorganisms.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Dance

• I think that I, Jack McBrayer, am somewhat of a people pleaser, and I do enjoy being good at my job. But I would never endanger my life with gullibility or naivete.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• 'You're stupid,' is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Stupid
  • Most

• It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free and sensual curve - the curve that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuous course of its rivers, in the body of the beloved woman.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Country
  • Free

• I used to have costumed characters come out, like SpongeBob. It's just fun to make it into this minor event, just to surprise people and experiment and be weird and just have fun with it. I've done just the hour stand-up, and that's fun, but the other stuff makes it fun for me and gives me something to react to and bounce off of.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Up
  • Done

• I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I was off to the races son!

  

  Jerry Reed Hubbard
  • Age
  • Son

• I don't know what I'm really good at. I'm really good at sittin' by the pool. I have to work at that. I'm really bad at auditioning.

  

  Alex O'Loughlin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Bad