I'm like a tourist when I'm in London.


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JULIEANNE O'CONNOR
a grin that wasn't natural, and that combined in a strange way affection and arrogance, the arroganc...
FRANK O'CONNOR
When you make an embarrassing mistake, learn to let the memories be enough to let you laugh about it...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR
When you get clear on your own boundaries, you will find it easy to decide what you're willing to ac...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR
Choose your path or others may choose it for you.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR
Sometimes life is unpredictable, as are people.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR
Often it takes more guts than skill to open doors. Once the doors get opened, then it's up to you.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR
Those things that are not within your control can often be the very things that set you free.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR
Sometimes you have to "play the part" to become the part.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR
Indiscretions can lead to great lessons.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR
Stand strong in your value. That starts by knowing your value.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR
He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her l...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without miss...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Anything is possible with laughter. If you can laugh out loud, especially at a life of mistakes, you...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR
You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
You are not for everybody, but you are for somebody.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR
He had a winning smile and it was evident that he didn't think he was any better than anybody else e...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
They had no previous connection whatever with Connemara; but they saw connections where others who s...
JOSEPH O'CONNOR
Even a true artist does not always produce art.
CARROLL O'CONNOR
Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of ...
CARROLL O'CONNOR
Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.
CARROLL O'CONNOR
I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things...
CARROLL O'CONNOR
Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.
CARROLL O'CONNOR
The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.
CARROLL O'CONNOR
Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.
CARROLL O'CONNOR
It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.
CARROLL O'CONNOR
Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were ...
CARROLL O'CONNOR
I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done...
CARROLL O'CONNOR
Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.
CARROLL O'CONNOR
My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.
CARROLL O'CONNOR
The wages of pedantry is pain.
CARROLL O'CONNOR
I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishin...
CARROLL O'CONNOR
One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I ...
CARROLL O'CONNOR
Not all celebrities are dunces.
CARROLL O'CONNOR
I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago em...
CARROLL O'CONNOR
Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.
CARROLL O'CONNOR
Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undiscipline...
CARROLL O'CONNOR
All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.
CARROLL O'CONNOR
Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways ...
CARROLL O'CONNOR
It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suf...
CARROLL O'CONNOR
In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering r...
CARROLL O'CONNOR
I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to d...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Life is full of surprises but you are exactly where you are supposed to be. Start there.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR
Life's unpredictable path and length, should be enough to make you want to take a chance.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR
Not only have we not done the good things that God really wants us to do, but in fact, we’ve done ...
ERIN O'RIORDAN
The sun, the moon, the ocean– these were all the children of Ouranos and Gaia. They had hundreds m...
ERIN O'RIORDAN
The point is that if we accept nature as God’s creation, then it’s ridiculous to think that God ...
ERIN O'RIORDAN
In art and mythology, the Goddess appears in three forms. White represents the virgin, red the mothe...
ERIN O'RIORDAN