#thing

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#carpenter #doing #home #i #i am

I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over? ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#because #embarrasses #i #i do #less

It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#else #entertainment #everything #excites #most

I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#done #going #hate #i #kind

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#business #characterized #childlike #flight #harsh

My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it? ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#me #nothing #should #why

That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business. ↗

— Donald O'Connor

#any #awful thing #become #business #chance

There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

#i #nothing #past #recent #recent past

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#carry #feeling #lonely #nothing #price

Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going for you... And the orchestra really kept you going. They'd laugh at all your jokes, even if they'd been hearing them for the last 30 years. ↗

— Donald O'Connor

#been #boring #else #even #gets