Dermot Healy Quotes
It is a costly thing living here to fight the erosion. The sea is constantly threatening to cut into the coastline and sweep all this away. Every year we have to haul stones up here to repair the damage and plug the holes. It's a full-time job.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.
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It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
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I love gross kissing. I think it's the most fun thing to do.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.
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Nobody who has even kicked a ball in the street likes losing.
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When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.
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I have a hard time repeating myself.
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Acceptance is right. Kindness is right. Love is right. I pray, right now, that we're moving into a kinder time when prejudice is overcome by understanding; when narrow-mindedness, and narrow-minded bigotry is overwhelmed by open-hearted empathy; when the pain of judgmentalism is replaced by the purity of love.
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Won't you look down upon me, Jesus, You've got to help me make a stand. You've just got to see me through another day. My body's aching and my time is at hand And I won't make it any other way.
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It is a costly thing living here to fight the erosion. The sea is constantly threatening to cut into the coastline and sweep all this away. Every year we have to haul stones up here to repair the damage and plug the holes. It's a full-time job.
