Neil Jordan (Neil Patrick Jordan) Quotes
I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral outrage. After Bizet died, at age 37, 'Carmen' became wildly popular. If you believe in your creation, and the rest of the world is laughing or yelling 'Boo,' don't give up.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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I've been successful because I've never been someone to shy away from taking responsibility.
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I love foods that start in my cheeks and then vibrate up.
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People love talking about writers as storytellers, but I hate being called that: it suggests I got it from my grandmother or something, when my writing really comes out of silence. If a storyteller came up to me, I'd run away.
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I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.
