Deirdre O'Kane Quotes

I knew I couldn't do what Eddie Izzard does, so I just tried to write some stories that were based, or partly based, on my own experiences.

Deirdre O'Kane

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Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word.

Johann Georg Hamann

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I try to write as serious as possible, and then a joke slips in.

Jeff Lindsay

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The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.

Ritchie Blackmore

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Domino is all about... as an actress and as the character that is going to be on the screen, you already allude to it: it's all about the sass.

Rob Liefeld

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The simple hearth of the small farm is the true center of our universe.

Masanobu Fukuoka

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A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.

Rudolph Valentino

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I have to change. It's like a curse.

Miles Davis

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Back in the 1960s, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary. I was at that age, about 14, and I was mesmerized.

Lucinda Williams

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When Beethoven's Seventh Symphony was premiered, after the second movement, they clapped so much that they had the repeat the second movement and do it again.

Joshua Bell

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Being a plus-size actress, it is slim pickings, so anytime any role comes up for a plus-size actress, my agents are all over it, and they were like, 'You have to book this job. It's 'American Horror Story.' It's a big deal.' No pressure, right?

Chrissy Metz

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It's something special being able to build a program up.

Christen Press

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