Mark O'Donnell Quotes

I love writing novels, even if only a few thousand people read them. Here's my soul; I hope it appeals to your soul.

Mark O'Donnell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 19, 1954 - August 6, 2012

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I noticed that people were craving a way of reinterpreting tradition and of being Jewish without joining a synagogue.

Jill Soloway

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At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island.

John Millington Synge

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Today, education does not give you the wisdom and the understanding; it only indoctrinates you to believe something. So the mind knows very less but accepts so many things; it may be science, it may be technology, it may be anything.

Lobsang Tenzin

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The best thing as a director is being able to be part of the thing that's so cool about a TV show, like running a character arc over six episodes or multiple series.

Colm McCarthy

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There's no point in making films unless you intend to show us something special, otherwise just go out and watch a play.

Bryan Singer

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Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

William Shakespeare

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It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Plato

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Debates are boring.

Mario Cuomo

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With the big publishers, they publish 50 books and promote five.

Marissa Moss

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Stand-up is successful if they laugh. It's unsuccessful if they don't laugh.

Kumail Nanjiani

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During the 10 years I worked as a prosecutor, I always struggled with what to do with someone who was clearly mentally ill and committed a horrific crime.

Kimberly Guilfoyle

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I've learned things about the craft of writing and about structuring a book and about character development and so on that I've just learned on the fly.

Khaled Hosseini

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