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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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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What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
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As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.
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Those who advocate devaluation are calling for a reduction in the wage levels and the real wage standards of every member of the working class.
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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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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.
