Donovan Quotes

Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.

I don't know about the rest of the world, but I know in our region everyone is gunning to beat us. We have a new challenge.

Americans love winners, so if we win we know we'll get a lot of support.

Inspiration is a joke, real artists sit down and work

I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.

Well the frog men finally got Rosie.

Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.

Bridget Jones has a lot to answer for.

Always educate yourself.

There's no relief, really, for me. I have relief after the Super Bowl. I set a goal to win the Super Bowl and that's where I'm going with it.

I want to be a positive influence. I want to be someone who they want to call in and want here consistently, regardless of my role.

Family is the most important thing in the world. If everything ended tomorrow and my family was still there, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Everything balled up into one: Beat Mexico and qualify. There's no better scenario.

There is something to be said for waking up every morning and seeing the sun.

Everything in life is most fundamentally a gift. And you receive it best and you live it best by holding it with very open hands.

Which office do I go to to get my reputation back?

I graduated from school for graphic design, and I started to get into acting class just to get over severe fright. I was an extremely shy person. I could barely say hello to anybody.

My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

I could hunker down by myself and listen closely to mixes, but then to be able to have a sounding board of peers to get advice and feedback.

The only weight I ever lifted weighed 24 ounces. It was a Schlitz. I always replaced my fluids.

Im Jamaican, man. Im Jamaican first. You gotta understand thats where Im from. Thats home. That you can never take away from me. Im a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter.

I'll have to say winning the Olympic gold in Atlanta is a crowning achievement, along with the gold in the relay in the same games.

The objectives of education and industry are identical. Both are interested in good citizenship, in serving society, in a better life-and both firmly believe in freedom.

England is my home, but Australia is my land and my country. This is where my heart is and where my family are. Australia will always be there, but I've made the decision to live here.

Believe it or not, I don't own a TV. Crazy huh? I'm not a big movie-goer either. I just feel like I'm watching work. I am always outside and couldn't care less about what's on TV these days.

There was no theater program or anything where I'm from. So junior year in high school I started the theater program.

Relaxing, going on vacation, sleeping, having fun when I want, golfing when I want, do whatever I want - I am going to enjoy it.

There is beauty in feeding others when you are spiritually or physically hungry yourself.

I think fear is unavoidable and that, when recognized and embraced, its something that can work for you - especially in the audition room.

I wanted to be strong when I went back to Persuasion. Strong and beautiful and totally together. I dreamed of the day I’d get to rub all your faces in my sheer awesomeness.

A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.

You might not be riding high on a great show for as long because you didn't have people to share the joy with.

It's not a morbid thing, but I think I've never been afraid of death, which is maybe why I love writing about it.

When I sang the line, 'Songs about Old Ireland.Songs about being young again.I wish I was young again,' twice people cried. I saw them.

Same if you had a bad show, it just rolls off you more easily.

Maybe when I die and I'm thrown overboard, I'll turn into a mermaid.

It's not that I literally believe in magic or spirits. In my logical life I absolutely don't believe in any kind of mumbo jumbo. But I do have this belief in the greater magic of the universe.

I really am planning on living to be 100. People ask, "Why are you so depressed?" I'm actually a very happy person.

I've always wanted to be thrown into the ocean when I die - to be rowed out to sea and thrown overboard into the Atlantic.

I've always been fascinated by flight and the freeness of birds.

I love the idea of birds having human qualities...I think all humans want to be birds so we can fly.

My relationship to all my family in Ireland is more to family as a whole. It wasn't that we had a very specific one-on-one relationship.

The songs came from a more solitary place and I hadn't played them with many people before recording. So I just added the layers of people who are in my life, and built up the songs.

I went to college to play football, not to study it.

I never met a cold cut I didn't like.

There's a lady up in heaven who must be very proud of the way the people in Baltimore have treated her boy from the Bronx.

I was 17 pounds when I was born. My mother couldn't walk for three weeks.

I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing. So I kept talking, and they kept laughing.

Nothing exists if a store doesn't buy it and you're not able to get it.

Fashion is entertainment. That's why these top models are so fascinating to kids. They're dying to know about Naomi and Christy, or whoever we've declared the new one this afternoon.