Dermot Healy Quotes
I rang up this publisher and they asked me what I was doing at the time. I told them I was a house-painter, so first of all they had me come round and paint the place. Only later did they consider my work and Banished Misfortune was published.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
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If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.
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Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.
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I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.
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As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.
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I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
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My beloved dog defied treatment from the best and most expensive veterinarians, holistic practitioners, trainers, and animal communicators. He was simply beyond my ability to repair or control.
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I was sixty-six years old. I still had to make a living. I looked at my social security check of 105 dollars and decided to use that to try to franchise my chicken recipe. Folks had always liked my chicken.
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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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Every year, our white intruders become more greedy, exacting, oppressive, and overbearing. Every year, contentions spring up between them and our people, and when blood is shed, we have to make atonement, whether right or wrong, at the cost of the lives of our greatest chiefs and the yielding up of large tracts of our lands.
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I rang up this publisher and they asked me what I was doing at the time. I told them I was a house-painter, so first of all they had me come round and paint the place. Only later did they consider my work and Banished Misfortune was published.
