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 didn't have a sweet tooth, but I liked butter, and I liked sauces, and I liked wine... and curry... and cheeses.
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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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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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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 like talking about acting. I'm comfortable talking about acting.
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I think that the reason you keep hearing that it's the golden age of TV is because original storytelling is happening all the time in that medium, and people are hungry for it. And I'm as guilty as anyone for being part of an industry that is capitalizing on existing stories, sequels, these things that we are seeing again and again and again.
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I'd love to work with Tarantino, Scorsese, Sofia Coppola - all of them! I love thrillers and action movies. I love good horror films. I watched them so much when I was younger that I find it impossible to get scared.
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I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
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The Bible has entered much of my work as have Latin and Greek mythology and verse.
