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Joseph O'Neill Quotes

I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very shallow Turk indeed.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: irish
Birth: 1964

Topics

Life Me Holidays My Life Holiday

My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details.

Colors Process Details Alive Now

I don't mind doing scripted material. It's actually kind of a relief, because improvising is a little bit like screenwriting on your feet.

Mind Feet Doing Kind Little Relief

I love cops; I'm fascinated by the criminal justice system.

John Gregory Dunne

Love Justice Criminal Justice System

The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification with and attachment to being female. And that's ultimately all ego.

Path Woman Yourself Ego You Unique

It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.

Robert M. Pirsig

Good You Lying Talk Always Zen

There aren't a lot of ironclad rules of family life, but here's one: No matter how much your parents deny it - and here's betting they deny it a lot - they have a favorite child. And if you're a parent, so do you.

Life Family Child Parents Parent

I didn't know Penn was an Ivy League school - I didn't know what the Ivy League was. When I got in, they sent me the package, and the tuition was my mother's salary for a year. My mom said, 'We can't afford it.' So I went to the library and found several scholarships and grants and was able to cover 90 percent of my education that way.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

Education Mother School Me Mom Year

I normally get four weeks off each year, so often I'll go to Los Angeles, or if I have a weekend off, I'll do a European city.

City Weekend Year Los Angeles Go

God deserves the best from us.

Michael W. Smith

God Best Us Deserves

I'll talk to myself out loud a lot.

Myself Talk Out Loud Lot

There's lots of incredible roles out there that I'd love to tackle, but there's a select group of actors I find myself gravitating towards, like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sean Penn or Daniel Day-Lewis - real transformational actors.

Love Myself Find Group Real Out

What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.

Good Friends Good Friends Over Years

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