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Deirdre O'Kane Quotes

I don't like doing things by halves, and I realised you can't do stand-up comedy part-time.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: irish
Birth: 1970

Topics

Comedy Doing You Stand-Up Comedy

You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.

Food People You Civilization Healthy

As you get older, your skin tone will change, and that means the colours that suit you best change, too. Take a trip to a department store and ask for advice, or simply hold colours close to your face in the mirror, as this should give you a good idea of what works.

Change Good Mirror Best Face Advice

My fantasy for children's television is that it's not really children's television, it's everybody's television.

Children Television Fantasy Everybody

I turned on Wall Street for the same reason everybody else did: The American taxpayer was forced to cut mook deals to bail out guys who didn't deserve it.

American Wall Street Deserve Reason

I'm a filmmaker, so I always think: When is the breaking point? Sometimes you've got to go beyond the breaking point, and then you catch it. When is long enough? It's one of those things you have to look at, walk away, and go home and find out what it is.

Steven Rodney McQueen

Home Walk Think Enough You Look

I never planned to join Black Sabbath - it just happened. It was back in 1979 when they were celebrating their 10th anniversary.

Ronnie James Dio

Anniversary Black Back Never Planned

We exist in this weirdly schizo culture, where sex is everywhere in the media, and yet, at the same time, you don't sit down and have a conversation about what you did in bed last night with your friends. Despite the ubiquity of sex, it's still a taboo when it comes to day-to-day conversation.

Time Culture Night Friends Media

Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.

Education Focus Better Attention Pay

But as far as the concept of HAL, who HAL was, his character - I had no role in creating him.

Douglas Trumbull

Character Creating Him Role Far Who

I will wear makeup because I want to look good for myself, but it's not to please other people. It's not so I fit in with the pretty girls or to impress guys.

Good Myself People Makeup Look Want

I wanted to become an actor so I didn't have to put on a suit and sell insurance.

Insurance Actor Become Suit Sell

I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.

Love Character Day Play One Day

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