Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin Quotes
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Film has to describe and show.
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Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.
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I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.
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Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'when you're on the right track, you'll know it, but until you get there, you have to believe you're on the right track'. Interesting little conundrum. It's not easy.
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The first thing I always look at on a girl is her eyes.
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.
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People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is.
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I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.
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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
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Nothing is impossible for pure love.
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Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned from the perverse male mind.
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Jane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet.
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I now had enough faith not only to believe there were answer, but to feel certain that those answers would become apparent at some point in the future.
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The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
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The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
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Logic is usually understood nowadays as a study of certain formal systems, though in former times there were philosophers who held that the subject matter of logic was the formal rules of human thought.
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Change isn't optional, and creation isn't something that happened a long time ago and then ended. It's ongoing, and we are invited to be a part of it. The question for us is 'what will we create in this new day?' How will we make it count? How will we nourish the things that matter, and stand in the way of injustice in the small ways that add up to the arc of history? You are invited to participate in the creation of this day.
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I have to admit I've always had quite a complex relationship with modeling and with the idea of advertising: not always knowing what I'm advertising and selling.
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For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.
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I use my voice as an instrument.
