Sean O'Casey Quotes
A man should always be drunk, Minnie, when he talks politics - it's the only way in which to make them important.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
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You still slightly down that you're ever going to work again, every time you finish something. That's the territory of being an actor. It's like anything that's competitive. It takes a lot of determination. I just feel lucky to be able to do something that I really love.
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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I'm a father and I'm a husband and I care about what's happening on our streets.
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The camera and I have always had good chemistry.
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I love helping out good people who are doing good things.
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Luxury, that baneful poison, has unstrung and enfeebled her sons.
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The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost. Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen?
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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A man should always be drunk, Minnie, when he talks politics - it's the only way in which to make them important.
