Gabriel Byrne Quotes
Unfortunately, I experienced some sexual abuse. It was a known and admitted fact of life amongst us that there was this particular man, and you didn't want to be left in the dressing room with him. It took many years to come to terms with it and to forgive those incidents that I felt had deeply hurt me.
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I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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You have to be yourself.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.
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I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.
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When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.
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Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously.
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I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been.
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Ultimately, the decision to save the environment must come from the human heart. The key point is a call for a genuine sense of universal responsibility that is based on love, compassion and clear awareness.
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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.
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It is not what you have lost but what you have left that counts.
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Unfortunately, I experienced some sexual abuse. It was a known and admitted fact of life amongst us that there was this particular man, and you didn't want to be left in the dressing room with him. It took many years to come to terms with it and to forgive those incidents that I felt had deeply hurt me.
