Edna O'Brien Quotes

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

Edna O'Brien

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GuiltLongIrishIcebergCatholic

If experience has taught me anything, it's to make every day as good as possible. You learn that with age, as it goes by so quick.

Jerry Hall

GoodAgeExperienceDayMeLearn

I'm a shockingly bad sleeper. In bed very late. Awake at the crack of dawn.

Andy Serkis

DawnBadLateBedAwakeCrack

My mother was born in Latvia. She and most of her family fled from the capital city of Riga in 1944 with the final approach of the Soviet army.

Amity Gaige

FamilyMotherCityArmyBornShe

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

Stephen Covey

UnderstandListenReplyIntent

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

Sidney Poitier

TruthWordsLegalEasyMoralKnow

You can't eat cake and lose weight.

Tom Perez

CakeYouLoseEatWeight

Our mother was so public - we always talked about her. But with her passing, all of a sudden we don't even want to talk about her.

Tom Smothers

MotherWantTalkAlwaysHerEven

I'm always traveling, so I tend to online shop. My go-to sites are Net-a-Porter and Matches. I recently moved to N.Y.C. and frequently shop at Sur La Table for my kitchen; Flair home collection, Aedes de Venustas for all my favorite home fragrances.

Jourdan Dunn

HomeKitchenTableAlwaysTraveling

I've been a fan of electronic music since the beginning.

Jonathan Davis

MusicBeginningBeenElectronic Music

Find an issue that's important to you, and be as curious and close to it as possible.

DeRay Mckesson

CuriousYouFindImportantPossible

At the moment I'm doing this space movie, so I'm obsessed with physics and space travel. I know three months down the line it's gone. Then I'll be able to superficially say stuff about space.

Cillian Murphy

MomentTravelSpaceDoingPhysics

A lot of people have trouble with their second novel - the dreaded sophomore jinx. I wrote three books in between the two novels, and they just weren't very good.

Claire Cameron

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