Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes
I approach my work with a passionate intensity, acting as if its success depends entirely on me. "But once I've done my best, I try to let go as much as possible and have no expectations about how my work will be received by the world."

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I had many, many mentors that I worked with. Music teachers, choir directors, directors in summer stock or in regional theater. You know, people I was able to work with repeatedly and learn from who were really sort of appropriate people for me to work with at a given time in my development as an actor.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.
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'White America' is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies.
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I've learnt more physics from Kabbalah than I ever did in school.
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The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.
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If I can keep losing myself - and finding parts of myself - in other people's writing and direction, then that's all I can really ask for. That's all I want, to keep losing myself.
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We are playing at home, with full stadiums and passionate fans. It will be very special moment for me.
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If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is a Democrat.
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I approach my work with a passionate intensity, acting as if its success depends entirely on me. "But once I've done my best, I try to let go as much as possible and have no expectations about how my work will be received by the world."