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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There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery, the aftermath of slavery, the development of the Ku Klux Klan. There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.
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People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It's no good demonising Robert Mugabe.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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Every time I work with real Southern actors... we immediately go into white trash, and we just get along really well within one night, you know.
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The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.
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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.
