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| User: | libertango (50517)  Libertango
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| Name: | Hal O'Brien | |||||
| Location: | Kent, Washington, United States | |||||
| Birthdate: | 1963-06-28 | |||||
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| Bio: | "We can build it with love, We can build it with peace, We can build it with happiness. If we can learn to believe There's nothing we can't achieve. We can overcome the bitterness." -- Londonbeat, "Build It With Love" "When there is doubt - there is hope When there is fear - there is love When there is hate - there is peace When there is suffering - there is The Dance" -- Robert Mirabal, "The Dance" "Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy." -- St. Francis of Assisi "Te ihi! Te wehi! Te wana!" ("The power, the fear, the awe!") -- Oceania, "Kotahitanga" "There's no such thing as bad weather, there's only the wrong clothes." -- Jimmy Kent, fishing friend of Billy Connolly "Jesus, Tom, that's some cough, innit?" "Fuck off! Did you pass the graveyard on your way in here?" "Aye." "Well, that graveyard's full of people who would fuckin' love my cough." -- Tom, the "temporary light man" at Billy Connolly's old shipyard "Did you save her?" "It was so dark, it was hard to tell who saved whom." -- Serge Frydman, La Fille Sur la Pont "If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people. And if you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you!" "Ladies and Gentlemen, Thespis has left the building!" -- Aaron Sorkin, both Sports Night "I didn't know babies came with hats." -- Aaron Sorkin, The West Wing "When I began writing, the words that inspired me were these: 'A writer is someone who has written today.' If you want to be a writer, what's stopping you?" -- J.A. Jance "Produce! Produce! Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a Product, produce it, in God's name! 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee: out with it, then. Up, up! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might. Work while it is called Today; for the night cometh, wherein no man can work." -- Thomas Carlyle "She has the daylight at her command, She gives the night its dreams..." -- Chris Cornell, "Can't Change Me" "If you can talk, you can sing. If you can walk, you can dance." -- Shona proverb from Zimbabwe "I pointed out to you the stars and all you saw was the tip of my finger." -- Sukuma proverb from Tanzania "Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn." -- Delmore Schwartz, "Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day" Nurse:"I need to ask you some questions, sir. Do you have any medical conditions?" Bartlet: "Well... I've been shot." -- Aaron Sorkin, The West Wing, "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen" Mrs. Landingham: "You know, if you don't want to run again, I respect that. But if you don't run because you think it's gonna be too hard... or you think you're gonna lose... {pause} Well, God, Jed, I don't even want to know you." -- Aaron Sorkin, The West Wing, "Two Cathedrals" "Information breeds confidence, silence breeds fear." -- Marlin Fitzwater, former White House Press Secretary. Personal communication to the Little Hoover Commission of California. December 14, 2001. Same phrasing used by Aaron Sorkin for the character C.J. Cregg, The West Wing, "The Women of Qumar", 2003. Fitzwater at the time was a consultant to the show. "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!" -- Terry Southern, Dr. Strangelove "I am no Einstein." -- Albert Einstein "Are you good, or are you lucky? How do you know?" -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled By Randomness "The most difficult cases aren't between 'right' and 'wrong' -- Those are easy. The most difficult cases are between two 'right's." -- Leo J. Flynn "Just because you are a character doesn't mean that you have character." "...ain't the same ballpark, ain't the same league, ain't even the same fuckin' sport." -- both Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction Wilson: "Is he alone?" Cracker: "Well, there's two schools of thought, sir." -- Mary Chase, Harvey Bernstein: "A fellow will remember things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You take me. One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on a ferry and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in. And on it, there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on - and she was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second and she didn't see me at all... but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl." -- Herman J. Mankiewicz, Citizen Kane BILL ROBERTSON'S VOICE (OVER): When I get a chance, I'll give it a look... LOWELL (heated) You better take a good look! Because I'm getting two things: pissed off and curious! And you don't want either one! -- Eric Roth, The Insider JOHN: Buddy, I hate to break it to you, but in the real world... where I live... there're only two kinds of love stories. Boy loses girl and girl loses boy. That's all there is. Somebody always gets left behind. You try to avoid that, you'll end up an old man toastin' yourself with egg nog in the mirror on Christmas Eve. You'll end up dying in your own arms. -- Allison Burnett, Autumn in New York "No good movie is too long, no bad movie is short enough!" -- Roger Ebert "Suppose I'd never, ever met you Suppose we never fell in love Suppose I'd never, ever let you Kiss me so sweet - and so soft Suppose I never, ever saw you Suppose we'd never, ever called Suppose I kept on singing love songs Just to break my own fall I hear in my mind all of these voices I hear in my mind all of these words I hear in my mind all of this music And it breaks my heart" -- Regina Spektor, "Fidelity" "This is how it works You're young until you're not You love until you don't You try until you can't You laugh until you cry You cry until you laugh And everyone must breathe Until their dying breath No, this is how it works You peer inside yourself You take the things you like And try to love the things you took And then you take that love you made And stick it into some-- Someone else's heart Pumping someone else's blood And walking arm in arm You hope it don't get harmed But even if it does You'll just do it all again" -- Regina Spektor, "On the Radio" "One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel." -- Steven Moffat, through the character Reinette, "The Girl in the Fireplace," Doctor Who The life that I have Is all that I have And the life that I have Is yours The love that I have Of the life that I have Is yours and yours and yours. A sleep I shall have A rest I shall have Yet death will be but a pause For the peace of my years In the long green grass Will be yours and yours and yours. -- Leo Marks (cryptographer, screenwriter, son of "Marks and Co.", friend of Helene Hanff) "You like so much to be alone?" "Yes; as long as my friends keep me from feeling lonely." -- Archer and Olenska, in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence Anne smiled and said, "My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company." "You are mistaken," said he gently, "that is not good company; that is the best. Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well." -- Jane Austen, Persuasion BRITANNUS (shocked). Caesar: this is not proper. THEODOTUS (outraged). How! CAESAR (recovering his self-possession). Pardon him. Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. -- Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra "I'm a patriot. I love my decadent, cosmopolitan, self-indulgent, racially-mixed, godless, intellectually dilettante, drug-abusing, promiscuous, queer-loving country. And its flag is the Stars and Stripes." -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden, rec.arts.sf.fandom, 15 Sep 2001 "You have to understand there are some real zealots and merchants of fabrication running around in this counterintelligence business," Ames said. "The danger of being handed a line of total muck or totally fabricated stuff is very high." -- Aldrich Ames, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, 20 May 1994. The Times didn't comment on whether Ames was referring to himself, and the official account of his actions. {{ver 3.7, 16 May 2008}} | |||||
| Memories: | 23 entries | |||||
| Interests: | 150: "friendly", a.s. byatt, academia, acting, activism, adam gopnik, aimee mann, alfred hitchcock, amnesty international, anne fadiman, architectural photography, architecture, art, art galleries, art museums, audrey hepburn, available light, ballet, billy connolly, boiled in lead, brassai, cary grant, celtic music, chaos, charm, choirs, choral singing, christopher alexander, clifton fadiman, congress, craig armstrong, cyril connolly, dance, dancing, david hume kennerly, denis leary, diaries, dives, drama, edward steichen, eric blair, essays, ezra pound, felicity kendal, film, film noir, fine art photography, flamenco, flirting, free speech, garlic, george clooney, george orwell, ginger, girls with glasses, government, graphic design, haida, history, intelligence, jane austen, joie de vivre, joseph epstein, juliette binoche, kate bush, kevin smith, keyboards, law, law school, libraries, litigation, ljmaps, los lobos, louise brooks, love, michael nyman, michel de montaigne, midland school, movies, museums, music, native american, neil postman, northside records, old hollywood, old leather coats, olivia williams, oscar wilde, parenting, pascale bussières, patrice laconte, paul fussell, paul krugman, people who get it, peter gabriel, peter turnley, philanthropy, photography, photojournalism, photoshop, politics, pro bono, reading, real world records, red hair, redheads, restaurants, salish, sapiosexuality, scandinavia, scandinavian rock, science fiction, science fiction fandom, scotland, seattle, senate, shakespeare, singing, steichen, steven soderbergh, sushi, sustainable development, sustainable living, sweden, taking livejournal lightly, tea, the goon show, the princess bride, the who, theater, theatre, tlingit, tom stoppard, tsui hark, urban planning, used bookstores, vancouver, varttina, vermeer, warren zevon, washington state, waterfronts, wit, woman, women, wordplay, words, writing, zone system, zydeco | |||||
| Schools: | Arroyo High School - El Monte, CA (1977 - 1978) Idyllwild Arts Academy - Idyllwild, CA (1978 - 1979) Midland School - Los Olivos, CA (1978 - 1981) Pomona College - Claremont, CA (1981 - 1986) | |||||
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| Member of: | 20: artists_model, bookish, jonsingerfnclb, life_in_kent, lolbrarians, moonlovers, nativeamerican, overheardsea, paidmembers, regency, regency_reenact, regencyclothing, salon1890_1930, seattle, seattle_art, seattle_dining, seattle_events, seattle_photo, selfportraits, volvolovers | |||||
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