Gabriel Byrne Quotes
The difference that a drama group or a cinema club can make to a small village or a town. It opens people up to ideas, potential about themselves that really, in a way, education often fails to. It's a way of drawing a community together.
Quotes to Explore
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People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
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The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
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I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.
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I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.
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The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
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I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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I grew up believing that my parents helped change the world. I was so in awe of them, and I wondered how I could measure up. I mean, how do you change the world - again?
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People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.
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I'm at this point in my career where I'm trying to step away from the realm of fine arts, because I think it's a very exclusive, very restrictive place to be. What I want to be able to do is to change the lives of people with the same materials they deal with every day.
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As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.
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I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
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It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.
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There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.
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I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
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You know, for myself, my personal journey has been a very fortunate one and I would say to people it's like the stars lined up and the skies opened up and the sun shined and I met the right people - was at the right time. And, most importantly, you know I love what I do.
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When I was younger, I thought that straight hair was, like, the only thing. So I was trying to be like Naomi Campbell or Tyra Banks. I didn't know that people would add hair for more length. I'm like, 'Oh all these people just have natural hair like this.' I obviously grew up and figured out that everyone does something to their hair.
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Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up.
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Mental wounds not healing, who and what's to blame. I'm going off the rails on a crazy train.
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We're playing like we are capable of playing. If we can continue to play like this we'll be fine.
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The difference that a drama group or a cinema club can make to a small village or a town. It opens people up to ideas, potential about themselves that really, in a way, education often fails to. It's a way of drawing a community together.
