Edna O'Brien Quotes

I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.

Edna O'Brien

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: December 15, 1932

Topics

TimeChildhoodI AmTryingYouMost

When I don't have control of the ball, what do I do? I press to get it back. It's a way of defending. But more important is that I like to have the ball. That's why I believe in individual coaching sessions to prepare players properly.

Johan Cruyff

ControlBelieveCoachingBackWhy

My daughter Stacia was born when I was 31, after I was divorced from David, and she was my gift to myself. She was just a joy because I didn't have the stress of a male irritating me, and I vowed that I would make absolutely certain that between her and me there would be a clear line of communication at all times.

Angela Bowie

CommunicationDaughterMyselfStress

I had the chance to go to Manchester United and other teams in the Premier League.

Alvaro Morata

ChanceGoUnitedManchester United

I'll come down the stairs, and my parents and sister will be like, 'What are you wearing?'

Suki Waterhouse

ParentsSisterYouDownStairsWill

I don't care for people who are given peerages who have paid for them. I think it happens, and I don't like that.

Ruth Rendell

PeopleThinkCarePaidLikeHappens

You have to believe in yourself. You need to have the audacity to be great.

Rosie Perez

Believe In YourselfGreatYourself

Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn's disease.

Mary Ann Mobley

YouCannotDiseaseCureOperation

I have no enemies and no hatred. None of the police who monitored, arrested, and interrogated me, none of the prosecutors who indicted me, and none of the judges who judged me are my enemies.

Liu Xiaobo

PoliceMeJudgesHatredEnemiesWho

Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.

Judy Collins

I AmFunMeWritingSorryStop

I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.

Diane Cilento

HardAlwaysLinesKnewHard Worker

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.

Brian Eno

MusicTimeStartThinkFurniture

When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.

Brad Pitt

MoneyPeopleStartOpportunitiesYou

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