Dermot Healy Quotes

I'm no good at dinner parties. I feel very uneasy at them.

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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  

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• Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

  

  Nat King Cole
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• I'm a good Muslim and I'm only interested in Islam.

  

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• For Eid - or Raya, as the Malaysians call it - we love to shop for new clothes for the festive season. There will be open houses to go to, and Malaysians love to look good for these.

  

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• No one can complain about earning good money, but for me, it's being able to help my family out, put my brother and sister through school, take my family on holiday. That's where I get the biggest buzz, not buying a pair of £500 shoes.

  

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• My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.

  

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• Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.

  

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• Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

  

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• I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

  

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• Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.

  

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• I've written a few songs that have to do with being in a relationship, the bad and the good.

  

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• A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.

  

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• Sometimes, it's good to stick to your guns.

  

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• My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.

  

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• I had a good job as a printer in the East End. Before the unions destroyed it, that job was very lucrative.

  

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• He who stops being better stops being good.

  

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• My mom and grandma, growing up, one thing they emphasized was that you need to make sure that anything you put on your skin is also digestible by the body. For example, if something isn't safe for me to eat or consume, it's probably not good for your face. So I do a lot of natural remedies.

  

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• People in America and Hollywood are very good at pronouncing my name, to begin with. Socially, they're very adept at listening to somebody's name and repeating it, cleverly in the first couple of sentences so the name sticks to begin with.

  

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• I never had a father, really. My great-grandmother raised me. But I was in this country where I got help from people that were not of my same color. So when I come out of the box, I don't come out of the box as racial. I look for good people, and people that will be like-minded and help me try to do good for other human beings.

  

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• To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.

  

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• The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.

  

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• Pilar sat squeezed up against the window and thought how very odd the English smelt.

  

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• Me, when I'm utterly exhausted by it all, when my skin breaks out, on those lonely evenings when I call my friends again and again and nobody's home, then I despise my own life - my birth, my upbringing, everything.

  

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• I'm no good at dinner parties. I feel very uneasy at them.

  

  Dermot Healy
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