Mike O'Brien Quotes

I enjoy, in the summer, getting back to writing in my own voice.

Mike O'Brien

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WritingVoiceEnjoyBackSummerOwn

I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series.

Jim Evans

MyselfWorldGameEnergyEnthusiasm

The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.

Jim Lehrer

OpinionStoryFirstJokesShouting

I got my first real job, one that didn't involve wearing a hairnet or bending over the hood of a wet car with a towel in my hand, in the early '90s working for CBS Records. While there, I started my first of several rock bands and eventually wrote my first book, the semi-autobiographical novel, 'Don't Sleep With Your Drummer.'

Jen Sincero

CarJobSleepBookHoodEarly

Being able to communicate with a loved one that you haven't talked to in a while because of some communication break makes their life and your life in a much better place.

John Paul DeJoria

LifeCommunicationLovedBetterYou

I grew up abroad, and when I first passed through London in the 1970s, it seemed a drab and provincial place.

John Lanchester

PlaceLondonFirstThroughUp1970s

I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture.

Steve Guttenberg

CultureSomebodyPopularReally

This acting is going to leave my stain. Not just my mark, because you can wipe a mark off. But a stain: it's going to take a whole lot to get that out, and that's how I'm going to leave my stain on this world.

RJ Cyler

WorldYouActingOutLeaveGoing

I had that laser focus, identified what I wanted when I was a kid, and never let anything get in my way. If you look on paper at who I am and what I sound like, and what I look like, you wouldn't say, 'Go into broadcasting.' It's just what I wanted to do - I knew that I could do it, and I never let anyone tell me that I couldn't.

Ross Mathews

FocusI AmMeYouLookGo

I don't listen to people's opinions. I have people around me who I can trust, but most of all I listen to myself.

Mary J. Blige

MyselfTrustPeopleMeOpinionsWho

My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life.

Mindy Kaling

LifeRelationshipMomMy LifeSingle

My grandma actually put me in girdles when I was around nine or ten because I had hips even then, and she didn't want boys to be attracted to me. Having hips meant you were a full-grown woman, and I was too young for that.

Coco Austin

WomanMeYouYoungWantShe

I would say I'm a casual gamer. I'm not hardcore.

Bruce Feirstein

SayCasualGamerWouldHardcore

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