Martin McGuinness Quotes
Commemorations can stimulate debate, which will ultimately lead to a greater understanding of the events of our 'through-other' history and to shape a better future.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.
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I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
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The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.
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One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.
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People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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I like working with my own body weight, and I just do the best job I can to be healthy and strong, both before and after a fight.
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I started out doing musicals.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
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I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when you're not working for money anymore, then you should find things that are meaningful and not just be like, 'OK, that's another day gone.'
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My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.
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I saw clearly only when I saw with love. Or can one ever remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume. And that's the truth of roses, isn't it? - The perfume?
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Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through 'divide and rule' becomes easy. It is happening today in the same way - more so, in fact - as it has throughout human history.
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Commemorations can stimulate debate, which will ultimately lead to a greater understanding of the events of our 'through-other' history and to shape a better future.
