Edward St Aubyn Quotes
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
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Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.
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I played Miley Cyrus' grandma on 'Hannah Montana,' and the first time I was on, they said, 'We love having veterans like you on because she's like a little sponge, and she's really appreciative of all the veterans that are coming on the show, and we just love that you're teaching her.'
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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I worked at a hospital parking cars and getting folks in and out of the hospital as they would come in for their appointments.
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The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change.
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I was never like, 'Oh, I really want to play Cinderella.' That's not necessarily always been the dream. But it's super fun to play a princess.
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The fall of 1912 my fielding was above the average, but my hitting was not so good. However, I was the talk of the town because of my peculiar way of catching a fly ball. They later named it the Vest-Pocket Catch.
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I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it.
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I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my skin erupt.
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In high school, I had to hide my comic book side, my nerd side from the civilian world so they wouldn't categorize me. They would try to marginalize me for what I like. I tried to give it up, believe me. I tried to kick the habit. But there's too much I liked about it to give it up completely.
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If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
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For proof that our culture has gone to the dogs, look no further than the bizarrely parental ways many Americans talk about our furry friends.
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Throughout Ireland, there's a brilliant community of filmmakers and actors, and I guess there was always a lure to do some work in the place where I come from.
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I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time.
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It must be hard to be exclusively social and entirely friendless at the same time.
