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 come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.
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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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When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.
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With the way I like to work, I always have to draw [inspiration] from somewhere, and the best place to take from is your own life.
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God was going to be to me the father that I never had, the father that I didn't have enough of, enough time with.
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Don't scale because you think there's a pot of gold over that rainbow. Scale because you're ready and eager to do heroic work, every day, forever.
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A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
