"I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool."

-- Jerry Doyle

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“Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let them engage with Normal Life are bullshit artists of the highest degree, looking to excuse their antisocial tendencies and bad manners away with a flourish of vocabulary and the semantic waving of hands.”
“Those who covet much suffer from the want.”
“Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, the truest lines or the flashiest ones?”
“War is sweet for those who haven't experienced it.”
“For my last meal I'd want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad's omelettes with three or four eggs.”

Source : "Erin O'Connor: 'I burnt my parents' lovely new kitchen down. But they forgave me in the end'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2011.
“Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.”

Source : Interview with Alberto Statera published in La Stampa, April 1994.
“If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.”
“Domestic violence is often ignored as it usually happens behind closed doors and it can seem easier not to get involved. Yet, domestic violence continues to affect 1 in 4 women at some point in their lifetime, regardless of their background, career, race or age, and it is vital that we do something now to protect those directly affected by abuse in the home.”

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