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Jamie O'Neill

"I’m just thinking that would be pleasant. To be reading, say, out of a book, and you to come up and touch me – my neck, say, or my knee – and I’d carry on reading, I might let a smile, no more, wouldn’t lose my place on the page. It would be pleasant to come to that. We’d come so close, do you see, that I wouldn’t be surprised out of myself every time you touched."

Source : Jamie O'Neill (2002). “At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel”, p.431, Simon and Schuster

Jamie O'Neill

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“I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else.”
“All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might.”

Source : James Martineau (1844). “Endeavors After the Christian Life: A Volume of Discourses”, p.220
“I love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they'd arrest you for crimes against acting.”
“Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends.”
“When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.”
“For people that are in recovery, you really need to stick by your boundaries. It's hard because you're sharing this space and this experience with other people who might not need to do those things for themselves.”
“They've been very helpful. They allow voters to cut through the din and clutter of the $100-million smear campaign the unions have been waging against the governor, and they allow voters to hear directly from the people who are for change and from people who are against change.”
“I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.”

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