Austin O'Malley Quotes
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
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I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.
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I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.
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Portraying visual impairment is difficult. I can see what's going on, but I have to act like I can see nothing. And this can be quite a challenge.
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When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.
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It's all about racing on the track.
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I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well – spent.
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I said 'no' to the 'Born Survivor' producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.
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I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
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I feel comfortable with what I do and I guess that my girlfriend feels the same.
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I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.
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In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
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As long as you're fully present in what you're doing at the moment, you're doing it.
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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
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I don't like the word 'rock star' or 'super star.' I am a guitar player, a songwriter who got lucky because I stayed at it and didn't give up, long enough that people noticed me.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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Sometimes I think I've been too honest, and other times, too explicit.
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Even as bad actors cannot sing alone, but only in chorus: so some cannot walk alone. Man, if thou art aught, strive to walk alone and hold converse with yourself, instead of skulking in the chorus! at length think; look around thee; bestir thyself, that thou mayest know who thou art! (103).
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I'm learning to be braver with colorful clothes, even if they're a little wild.
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The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from.
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A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
