Jerome Flynn Quotes
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The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
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You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
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What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.
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Music is how you feel.
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I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.
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A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
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When I understand this liability as a trade-off for my strengths, something new and liberating arises within me. I no longer want to have my liability 'fixed'-by learning how to dance solo, for example, when no one wants to dance with me-for to do that would be to compromise or even destroy my gift.
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Art is just fraud. You just have to do something nobody else has done before.
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When you laugh at something, you don’t fear it anymore.
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A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.
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History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.
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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
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Mankind has conceived history as a series of battles; hitherto it has considered fighting as the main thing in life.
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People talk very much about, 'What can we do with the orchestra in the 21st century?' We should think about the 21st century, of course.
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I don't know what the next frontier is, but good comedy should put its toe into taboo waters. You have to transgress a little bit, and that area shifts with culture and with the year.
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We all have to be concerned about the world being very dangerous.
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Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
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I've always enjoyed the physical side of acting.
