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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New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach... and I love rap.
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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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I think I have a very good reputation amongst the gay population and among the whole country because I stood up on the issue of gay rights. It is not easy to stand up on that issue when you are single and male in New York City. I did it anyway.
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People would tell us, 'I love your company, but I want to go to Chicago or Boston or New York.'
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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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My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.
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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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Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.
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Doing voiceovers is so great because even though many people would think it's just your voice, you really do use all your physicality. I've done everything from playing a butterfly to Alice in Wonderland when she's 10 feet tall, so it allows you to be an actor and build new characters.
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Trillions of dollars every day are being exchanged around the world in all of the financial markets.
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I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
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I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
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I've always enjoyed the physical side of acting.
