Pierce Brosnan Quotes
When I went to America, I spoke so much about who I was and gave so much away in a confessional, Irish, story-telling way that I suddenly realised I had given up a lot of myself. I had to shut up.
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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I'm happy to fight anybody.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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I got through college.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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By no means do I want to be a piece of meat for the rest of my career. It's funny when you get asked to do a talk show, and then they follow it up with requesting you take your shirt off.
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Vermont will always be my home in my heart, but I really love L.A.
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
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When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time.
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Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.
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When I went to America, I spoke so much about who I was and gave so much away in a confessional, Irish, story-telling way that I suddenly realised I had given up a lot of myself. I had to shut up.
