Fionnula Flanagan Quotes
The image of Ireland is projected as a male image in the acting world, similar to the way that the word of Ireland is male dominated.
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Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.
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The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
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But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!
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French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
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People don't actually read newspapers. They step into them every morning like a hot bath. (p. 184)
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Even a small village in the middle of Africa with a 3D printer will have access to any good it can download. The world of the 'Star Trek' replicator is not far away.
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One would never have guessed that the world had such a capacity for genuine grief. The most we can do is exploit our memories of his excellence.
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The image of Ireland is projected as a male image in the acting world, similar to the way that the word of Ireland is male dominated.
