John Millington Synge Quotes
The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island.

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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
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I'm honored to be one of the guys that is seen as a leader of this great team - a team that has stood the test of time. AKA is one of the only teams that has been around since the beginning of the MMA explosion, and it's a huge honor for me to be named captain.
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I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
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The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.
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I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.
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Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.
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Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.
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Satiation may spill over outside the specific task to structurally similar tasks) and may end up in an early exhaustion of the occupational will.
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To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. Oh vast gloomy, solitary Golgotha, and Mill of Death! Why was the living banished thither companionless, conscious? Why, if there is no Devil; nay, unless the Devil is your God?
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Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.
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The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island.