Brian Fallon Quotes
The first time I heard 'White Man in Hammersmith Palais,' I loved the vulnerability in the music and the lyrics.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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There's some places where, I don't know if they're fiddle fans, or Natalie fans or if they just love Celtic music, but there's some places where there's just awesome crowds.
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Good music makes you feel something.
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I always loved singing because I grew up in a very musical family. My mom wasn't able to do music professionally because her parents wanted her to get a 'real job,' but she played guitar.
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Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.
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The first time I heard 'White Man in Hammersmith Palais,' I loved the vulnerability in the music and the lyrics.
