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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I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new plays was a whole new world I didn't expect, and that I would like to keep doing.
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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 never do, I don't even go to the retrospectives.
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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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A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
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I sat in the truck and had to force myself to rejoin the party. I hated parties—even the ones thrown in my honor.
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For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
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Current Catholic worship often ignores the essential connection between truth and beauty, body and soul, at the center of the Catholic worldview. The Church requires that we be faithful, but must we also be deaf, dumb, and blind? I deserve to suffer for my sins, but must so much of that punishment take place in church?
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I've always enjoyed the physical side of acting.
