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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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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You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.
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You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us.
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I do know it's great to have a support from a fan base of a team. Football is such a team game, such a team aspect to it... Good things happen, the praise is spread around; and bad things happen, usually it's not just one person's fault.
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Love isn't like money – the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.
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If we are recognizing the Bible as a sacred text, then we are violating the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Tennessee by designating it as the official state book.
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There's not one person in this state who believes they are going to have a job in my administration... There's not one person who I've promised anything to.
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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.
