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" I admire Pat Shortt as a businessman. Such acumen is unusual for an entertainer. He did all his own deals. I learnt a lot from Pat when I was on the road with him for a year. "
Deirdre O'Kane
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" I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 13. "
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" Yves Saint Laurent will never go out of business so long as I'm buying mountains of Touche Eclat. "
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" One day I got an invite to help the Christina Noble Foundation, and by this stage, I'd already been talking about her for 10 years. I said 'yes' right away, and that was the first time I met her. "
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" I'm doing my best to be mindful about how I'm living: to be kind and patient, and not to impose a bad mood on somebody else. Being mindful is as good a way to be spiritual as anything else. "
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" My salary swings an unbelievable amount. When I had Holly, I took seven months off, so my salary was very low. It fluctuates wildly. No one pays you for the period you spend writing. I am certainly not rich. "
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" I have never, ever slept through my child crying unless I have had a sleeping tablet; and I only take a sleeping tablet when I know Steve, my husband, is on duty. We take turns: he does one night, I do the next. "
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" I was never very good at being an unemployed actor. I always thought that I should have been doing something pro-active. I was never good at doing juvenile leads. I suppose it's because I have this big sarcastic head on me. "
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" I knew I couldn't do what Eddie Izzard does, so I just tried to write some stories that were based, or partly based, on my own experiences. "
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" I love motherhood. I certainly wasn't aware of any mothering instincts until I had babies. I wasn't a person who desperately wanted to have kids, but you don't get it until you do it, and, suddenly, this nurturing instinct exists. "
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" Growing up, I was your classic Catholic Irish kid. I went to mass every Sunday. Then in secondary school I went to boarding school, and there was mass seven days a week before breakfast - it may have put me off! "
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" Waiting to be hired, as an actor, especially, is soul-destroying... There is always something you can do... Create something, a play reading... Anything. But don't rely on other people to come to you. Put yourself out there. "
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" There's a lot I've missed about living in Ireland. You miss family, particularly when you've got kids. "
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" The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones. "
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" Filling a theatre like the Olympia or Vicar Street on your own name is a very rewarding moment. "
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" I spent seven years in clubs in England, Australia, etc. Not all comedians cross over to sell out in a theatre. "
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" Many's the audition I waltzed into unprepared and wondered why I didn't get it. I learned the hard way. "
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" When you're independent and not attached to a major media organisation, they just look at you as if to say, 'Who are you again?' "
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" I was 25 before I joined the world, in my opinion. I was a very late developer, and everything came late. "
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" I would have benefited a lot from proper training. I could have done with a strong wake-up call about getting jobs. "
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" Most people haven't seen my dramatic work, but I did 10 years of theater before I ever became a comic. I'm just better known for comedy. "
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" I'm a shopper but not a big money/label-y shopper. It makes me a nervous wreck. "
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" I don't particularly want to work with my husband all the time, as in the living and the working thing. "
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" I could probably die happy with a cheeseboard and a glass of French red wine - that's my idea of a perfect dinner. "
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" I get a good colour in summer but go really pale in winter, and it genuinely doesn't suit me, as people ask me if I'm ill. As well as making me look a bit better, I often have to be tanned in the middle of winter to do a show or programme, so I've road-tested every fake tan on the market. "
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" With a new baby, you have a bad day now and again because you're particularly tired, but most of the time, you're fine. You spend a lot of your time trying to figure out how you can get more sleep, but really, you're better off just giving up and admitting that you're not going to, so forget about it. "
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" I can make my living out of Ireland, but the reason I came to London was that I felt I'd gone as far as I could go in Ireland. "
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" Ultimately, I just decided stand-up comedy is a huge commitment, and if you want to be the best, you have to give it one hundred per cent. "
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