Eamon de Valera Quotes
By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
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I studied Morse code.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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I always drive like a madman.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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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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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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You do the policy, I'll do the politics.
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People become actors because they want to hide, and it's not easy to talk about myself. I accept that a certain responsibility goes with being an actor in the public eye, but I haven't found a comfortable way to deal with it.
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So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.
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I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.
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What really troubles me is that democracy is getting a bad name because it is identified with imposition and occupation. I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
