Dermot Healy Quotes
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Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
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I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
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I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
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I hate the domestic life.
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We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.
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Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
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I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
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I love listening to pop radio.
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I love everything to be organized and clean... all the time.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.
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I went into performing for the community. Being backstage with your company of fellows is the best part of working in live theater. That energy, that combined focus, the synergy - it's addictive.
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If you're not doing something right, you can feel it on stage, and if it isn't going well, the audience will tell you. A teacher can teach you sense memory and this and that, but until you get in front of an audience, you don't really feel it.
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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
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When you dig down and look at the people who are vocal in their criticism of me, it's a small number.
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The Bible has entered much of my work as have Latin and Greek mythology and verse.
