Martin McGuinness Quotes
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.
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I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school.
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I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
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Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
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I worried I was a boyish shape. I always thought I might grow some, but it never happened.
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As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.
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I set goals for myself every three months. I write them down.
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I always say that I need competition, and I need competition every week, and in Spain, I was at an amazing club, but I had four matches a year: Barcelona v Real Madrid, Real Madrid v Barcelona, and after that, we'd win 4-0, 5-0, 4-1, 6-1.
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I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
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Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.
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The war against British rule must continue until freedom is achieved.
