Pierce Brosnan Quotes
I'm first and foremost an Irishman, by birth, by nature, by soul, but an American citizen through and through as well.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. 'From Here to Eternity' must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
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The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
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I'm interested in what happens to music when other people use it. Whereas there are composers who don't like anyone to touch their music, I think people should because they do things I can't think of.
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When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.
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The Bethlehem profit-sharing system is based on my belief that every man should get exactly what he makes himself worth. This is the only plan I know of which is equally fair to the employers and every class of employee. Someday, I hope, all labor troubles will be solved by such a system.
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It seems strange to say this, but it is true: Coming back to Vegas to work is like going on vacation for me.
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I'm first and foremost an Irishman, by birth, by nature, by soul, but an American citizen through and through as well.
