Malachy McCourt Quotes
I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?
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My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.
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I am a crazy Maverick fan. I would go there if Dallas was a great entertainment center.
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I don't have a problem with recognition... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.'... It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality.'
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
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'Outlander' is progressive in the way it looks at women.
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Separate inherently is not equal. There's a reason why $45 million was spent against marriage equality. It's because people understand the word does have meaning. And equality comes when we accept the same notions and the same institutions for everyone, regardless of race and gender and regardless of sex orientation.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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I'm always focused.
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There was a dodgy digital period when things didn't sound that great, but now we are figuring that out. The basics haven't changed, which is talented human beings playing together in a room.
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As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.
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I think it is one of the greatest pictures ever taken of a woman.
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I've given up looking for a boyfriend. That's not to say I won't be interested if the right guy comes along. But I'm not in a hurry.
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I really needed to dramatize and clarify that Rachel was taking strides towards her own healing and her own sobriety - and that she was actually thoroughly frightened about what she may have done.This was something that was so beautifully done in the book [The Girl on the Train] through inner monologue, but I couldn't just have a whole film filled with inner monologues. So going to Alcoholics Anonymous was a very simple solution to that problem.
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I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?
