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Carroll O'Connor Quotes

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.

Carroll O'Connor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: August 2, 1924 - June 21, 2001

Topics

Business Flight Childlike Real Show

I read everything. When I say everything, I read everything: children's literature, Y.A., science fiction, fantasy, romance - I read it all. Each genre fulfills a different need I have. Each book teaches me something.

Science Children Me Book Literature

Well when I made my first record I thought it would be a good joke to have me on one side, have the lable say John Fahey on one side, and this guy Blind Joe Death on the other side.

Good Death Me Thought Blind Say

I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.

Meghan O'Rourke

I Am Child Say Irish Two Religious

It was a long, difficult summer of 2004. That was a leap year, so several things happened - the Olympics and presidential election. And right in the middle of the election campaign - and I don't think this was an accident - the 9/11 Commission delivers its report.

Think Year Long Election Summer

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.

Opportunity Heart Eyes Soul Empathy

I think intimacy is the last taboo in many ways.

Think Intimacy Last I Think Many

My friends, they get married at 15 years old. I saw them with bruises on their faces. I realized this is the real face of child marriage.

Sonita Alizadeh

Marriage Child Face Friends Real

How I conned the Grand Wizard, David Duke, and his coterie of followers... It has defined me in ways I never could have imagined.

Me Never Followers Grand Wizard How

I really understood a lot more about comedy after listening to Bill Hicks, who died at 32 years old. He's probably the best comedian who ever lived. Although you can't say that because of Carlin, Cosby and Pryor.

Best Listening Comedy You Say More

That seems to me the great American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.

Great Experience Me American Alive

It doesn't matter if that felony happened three weeks ago or thirty-five years ago - for the rest of your life, you've got to check that box, knowing full well the odds are sky-high your application is going straight to the trash.

Michelle Alexander

Life Rest You Three Trash Knowing

I am never going to give music up.

Music I Am Never Up Going Give

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