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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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'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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Sometimes altering your position is the right thing. Sometimes it's not.
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An anomaly is not an abnormality. Diversity does not signify sickness.
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One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.
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I'm sure my children will be artists. I hope they will direct because it is much more interesting. Acting is great, and I love it, but it is very passive, and it depends on other people's desire, and you depend on others all the time.
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If something comes along that's really good, and I think I would be good for it, I'd be happy to do it. But not too many came along. I mean, they came along for the first, I don't know, 15, 18 films, but I didn't do that many. But then I didn't want to do the kind of junk I was seeing.
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The Bible has entered much of my work as have Latin and Greek mythology and verse.
