Brendan Gleeson Quotes

I started hitching about the country when I was 16 or 17 years old. I found the music that was played around the country - Irish music - had a particular resonance.

Brendan Gleeson

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• Irish

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• Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.

  

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• Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.

  

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• Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.

  

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• I've been on sets my whole life.

  

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• To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

  

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• Because I was so quiet, my father let me spend hours and hours next to him while he would sketch. Everyone else was always asking things from him. I wasn't asking anything. I was just happy to be there.

  

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• I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.

  

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• What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those of democracy itself. When they say we need to insulate economic policies from politics, they are in effect advocating the castration of democracy.

  

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• I started hitching about the country when I was 16 or 17 years old. I found the music that was played around the country - Irish music - had a particular resonance.

  

  Brendan Gleeson
  • Music
  • Country
  • Irish