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I just worry that it reinforces some of the negative stereotypes about workers in the public service: that they're bored and not interested in their work.


Ed Cashman

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ED O'BRIEN I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a...
ED O'BRIEN I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
ED O'BRIEN We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.
ED O'BRIEN We're not spokespeople, we're musicians.
ED O'BRIEN But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's...
ED O'BRIEN I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
ED O'BRIEN What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the s...
ED O'BRIEN Everyone who's serious about what they're doing must be in constant motion forward.
ED O'BRIEN There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special t...
ED O'BRIEN Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn'...
ED O'BRIEN We don't hate the media, it's just that when there's too much of it we get bored, but it...
ED O'BRIEN Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
ED O'BRIEN We are a weird bunch, we are very disparate.
ED O'BRIEN It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
ED O'BRIEN All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring ab...
ED MCMAHON The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way dow...
ED MCMAHON Golf courses sell real estate and that's why they're built.
ED MCMAHON Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without bei...
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