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 to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
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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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Why must everybody like you?
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Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
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The radio is good for taking somebody else's experience and making you understand what it would be like. Because when you don't see someone, but you hear them talking - and, uh, that is what radio is all about - it's like when someone is talking from the heart. Everything about it conspires to take you into somebody else's world.
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You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.
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And then Fito sort of hung his head and he was blinking his eyes, like he was trying to blink away all the tears that he’d held inside all his life.
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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.
