Gabriel Byrne Quotes
I think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.
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Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
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I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.
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The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.
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When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
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I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'
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I've never had a couch that needed to be cleaned or learned how to couch-clean in general. That feels too grown-up.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.
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I'm just the opposite of a lot of photographers who want everything to be really, really sharp. And they're always, you know, stopping it down to F64.
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I don't think the way I portray mother's and son's relationships has anything to do with my age or generation. It has to do with what I lived with my own mother and what it's transformed into and the point of view it has given me on mothers and women. The way I was brought up with women. It's all about personal background.
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Even though the popularity and the fanbase is much much greater, and more people have heard about me through things like the Grammys and the Ivors and touring and word of mouth, it doesn't reflect in the sales of the record and doesn't go into my pocket.
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Money talks; there's no question about it.
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People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.
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I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.
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I think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.
