Eamonn Coghlan Quotes
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
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There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.
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Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.
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It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'
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My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.
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If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
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As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!
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When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.
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My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.
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Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.
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I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that.
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I had to read Plato and Kant, and at times I was overwhelmed. But I have always been fearless, and so was Hannah Arendt. She wasn't afraid to speak out when she knew her opinions would not be popular because she believed in the public discourse above all.
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I think that when you make yourself vulnerable, the thing that you do next is better. It's not like you have to inflict pain on yourself in order to make yourself better, but I think it helps. The thing that bonds you to a new friend isn't that you went to a really fun party; it's 'cause you had a really weird, sad conversation.
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I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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Deep down, I think I would be utterly miserable in Hollywood.
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The climate of today is not really focused as much as it was then on being able to speak about different cultural issues or different situations that were going on politically.
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Going gray is like ejaculating: you know it can happen prematurely, but when it does it comes as a total shock.
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I think I was probably able to flip characters in my head as if I was playing different roles in order to write the different people because you kind of have to be one person, and inhabit him and write from his voice and be her and write her voice. So I think that helped.
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It's something in me, deep down, that makes me different in a race.
