Conor Cruise O'Brien Quotes
You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.
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When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
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Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.
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My parents actually ran drag clubs in Australia, which is how I grew up. It was normal for me. It was my normal. I knew the other kids didn't do it, but for me, it was life, and nothing was wrong with it. I would see nothing wrong with Beyonce having a drag queen nanny. And why not? Everyone needs one! And a great gay man in their life.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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I want to be a soldier as my father was.
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I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I think that's why people are doing too many revivals, that's why there's a plethora of rock musicals. There's room for everything, but not room for too much of anything.
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My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.
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I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
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I think people just want to be popular. So they're going to write lyrics that are going to get your attention. You know, sometimes, they're a little graphic, and I don't think that's so necessary.
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We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.
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I definitely see myself continuing to transition into more acting roles. I'll always be a coach. I'm always going to have a training center, always going to work with guys that are looking for some input and want help. I love commentating, and that's something I can always go back to and enjoy doing.
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I had no interest in cinema until I was 24 years old. My friends had posters of their favourite stars in their houses, but I was far from a film buff - very detached from films.
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I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.
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The typical old-fashioned diet was so bad it almost resembled modern dieting.
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However disagreeable a situation is to you, you cannot get rid of it by indignation.
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Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.
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If I try harder I might be reincarnated as a lonely virgin hiding behind a cartoon frog.
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In our culture, security has become an obsession.
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People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.
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I get inspired with passion, I think. I get inspired by people who are just passionate, and it doesn't matter what they do or what they're passionate about.
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To see what books were available for my older students, I made many trips to the library. If a book looked interesting, I checked it out. I once went home with 30 books! It was then that I realized that kids' novels had the shape of real books, and I began to get ideas for young adult novels and juvenile books.
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Sometimes the best thing you could do is a real bad film... you could improvise all over the place and probably only improve the script.
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Modern women like to think we invented the idea of balancing work and family but women have always done it.
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You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.
