#ok

At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#i #job #just #new #new job

There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#bin #got #happened #laden #spies

You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can't shift, unless you have very boyish looks. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#becomes #boyish #carry #impossible #just

Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y. This is a wonder to me. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#book #books #got #i #many

So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking! ↗

— Sharon Olds

#did #drinking #haven #i #managed

The decision for me was whether to have "The Father" be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#books #daughter #decision #earlier #else

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke. ↗

— Margaret Oliphant

#always #beyond #going #got #home

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then. ↗

— Pat Oliphant

#did #i #journalism #know #looked

I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#because #cook #could #early #early age

I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#come #cook #even #ever #food