Lady Gregory Quotes
Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I'm very happy with what I've accomplished, but we're going for more.
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'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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I get hugs all the time from strangers. I do believe that people can feel your persona when you perform live, but it is one of the nicest things if you can translate that on your records.
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I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
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I always start with emotion. That's where I start all of my improvisations, on the piano. I always start with the mood or the feel of where I am in that moment.
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I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.
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But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.
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Religion has gotten a bad rap for good reasons. Often, there are a lot of people - women, LBGT, and others - you know, hierarchical monotheism has been a real source of a type of oppression.
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Rock stardom will die because nobody will make enough money any more to be rock stars.
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What happens is, especially when I was writing for my band, Creedence, and it's the way I write now, I go into "guitar lick" mode. When I do, it sort of leads into a real song. I'd say to myself, your songwriting is coming up with a guitar lick, and the rest is easy!
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
