Dermot Healy Quotes

I know writing is what I do but I still don't see myself as one.

Dermot Healy

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• When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.

  

  Zachary Gordon
  • People
  • Up
  • Mom

• In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Life
  • Real
  • Beautiful

• Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.

  

  Irene Peter
  • Thinking
  • Today
  • Confused

• Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Society
  • Fashion
  • Reflection

• They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Hope
  • Day

• Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Space
  • Resources
  • Weight

• We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Government
  • Process
  • Clear

• There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Times
  • Penalty
  • Those

• I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Character

• During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Remember
  • Fun
  • Childhood

• There's no regrets for me.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Me
  • Regrets
  • No Regrets

• You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Know

• Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Religious
  • Religion
  • Hallmark

• Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Film
  • Confidence
  • Commitment

• The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Society
  • Satisfied
  • Top

• 'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Story
  • Two
  • Sides

• The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Feel
  • Body
  • Look

• I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • God
  • Weird
  • Thank God

• Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

  

  Louis D. Brandeis
  • Courage

• It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Long
  • Marriage

• If you can predict where the market's going, just do what you can predict. If you can't, which is the presumption of dollar cost averaging or time cost averaging, either one, then you're trying to ease in. But if the market rises more than it falls most of the time, easing in is, by definition, a loser's game.

  

  Kenneth Fisher
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Game

• Who hasn't sharpened the edge of his soul? When, just as our eyes are opened, we see hate, and just after learning to walk, we are tripped, and just for wanting to love, we are hated, and for no more than touching, we are hurt, which of us hasn't started to arm himself, to make himself sharp, somehow, like a knife, to pay back the hurt?

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Soul
  • Hate
  • Eyes

• You get out of college, you have to have a car, a place to live, food to eat and furniture, and it's too overwhelming to do it yourself. You don't want to live at home, so you get a roommate.

  

  Mike Peters Big Country
  • Food
  • Eat

• I know writing is what I do but I still don't see myself as one.

  

  Dermot Healy
  • Writing