Michael D. Higgins Quotes
When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.
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I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
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I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
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I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
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I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.
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I did a sitcom with Desi Arnaz Jr. in a pilot called 'Whacked Out.' We were bombing, and Lucille Ball grabbed the mic and started berating the audience.
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In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.
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I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
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I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.
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I started at Pixar the month 'Monsters Inc.' came out.
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I started gigging when I was about 16, and I was way too young to be in the clubs.
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I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
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You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
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I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.
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I started out as a novelist and wrote several novels before deciding to publish one, and I fully intend to go back to the form.
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I love a good cliffhanger. I love when big events happen in shows. I love shows that aren't afraid to take risks and to really do what's best for the story line and realistic for the story line.
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Governments started negotiating towards emission reduction in 1990. That's when the official negotiations started.
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I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.
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Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
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If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because either of you think she is God, but because she is doing her work - as a novelist.
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City Year resonated with me because when I grew up, we were poor - and an education is a way out of poverty. It's a way out of the current situation that can seem isolating and hopeless for some kids.
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I's only the things you don't do that you end up regretting: the women not courted, the paintings not painted, the paths not taken.
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When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.
