George Bernard Shaw Quotes
An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.
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The characters in 'Ray Donovan' are not very articulate - we're the worst Irish family you could ever live next to in L.A.
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My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
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In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.
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I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
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My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
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It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?
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The gun is not out of Irish politics.
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Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
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The '60s is one of my favourite eras in general. I love '60s music, and I've always wanted to do a period film.
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In general, comedians are attracted to vice.
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Politicians are, in general, receptive to those who make the most noise.
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I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.
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Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness as a poetic end, they are merely exploiting incidental local colour.
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I got an Irish passport the other day. I love it. It's the best thing in my pocket.
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There are so many wonderful, wonderful musicians in the world, I cannot possibly make a distinction between the fact that they might play classical music, or bluegrass, or Irish traditional, or Indian music.
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There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment.
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I have three older brothers. I'm Irish. I'm feisty.
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I came to think that nobody from England could draw American comic books, because they were clearly all done by this sort of Mafia, all these guys with Italian and Irish names who had the whole thing sewn up. It was actually seeing a comic book drawn by Barry Smith, who was about my age, and English.
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If you could remove News Corp from the last 25 years of American history, we would be in an entirely different place.
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I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but they can also be fantastical, so it's nice to have a setting that grounds them a little bit.
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Your world will change whether or not you choose to change, but you have the power to choose it's direction.
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Young people have a right to optimism, and rightly so; human beings have grown and developed and accomplished wonderful feats in the world. But what mires me in pessimism is the fact that so much of life is pain and sorrow and willful ignorance and violence, and pushing back against that tide takes so much effort, so much steady fight. It's tiring.
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An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.
