Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes
It's hard to tell our bad luck from our good luck sometimes. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something when if we'd understood the situation better we might have celebrated our good fortune instead.
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I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.
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The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.
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Nothing was made in Trinidad.
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What agent is there other than the Creator of the heavens and earth who can know whatever occurs in our heart, down to its most subtle and secret thoughts, and illuminate the future for us by establishing the Hereafter, saving us from the countless suffocating waves of the world?
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The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.
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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
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I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.
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Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.
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I didn't go to the cinema a lot when I was young.
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I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
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Women of every age and size really just want to look sexy, while retaining their power and dignity.
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You can't just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need stuff that is mystical but you need the realism too.
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What makes Reddit special is that people feel free to express themselves. Where we want to draw the line is where that feeling of being able to express oneself freely starts to infringe on someone feeling like they can express themselves.
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The #MeToo and Time's Up movements have been a roar on behalf of women, and the voices are genuinely empowered now. I really feel that.
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I was interested in big unknowns, and the brain is one of the biggest, so building tools that allow us to regard the brain as a big electrical circuit appealed to me.
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Greece is not an easy country to do business in.
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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
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Throughout the years following World War II and until the formation of the European Economic Community in 1958, I was very active as a national or international rapporteur at many of the international conferences aiming to establish an European community.
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It's hard to tell our bad luck from our good luck sometimes. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something when if we'd understood the situation better we might have celebrated our good fortune instead.
