Red Gerard (Redmond Gerard) Quotes
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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What matters most is the win.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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It was cool to meet Cris Carter. That dude has some of the best hands to have played the game.
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God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
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I've done a lot of sci-fi, so I was a little hesitant because you get pigeonholed into that genre and world. But at the same time, I love sci-fi because the women are so strong and independent and smart.
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I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why - but we really need to land on that why. That's what I've been exploring in my writing for many years and trying to get better at.
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The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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I don't tweet because I don't need another creative venue. I don't need another form for self-expression. I don't need another way to get my thoughts out to people. I have one. I'm good.
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I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'
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I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
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Open rehearsals reach people who might not otherwise hear the Philharmonic - people on fixed incomes, people who can't move easily at night, students.
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Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers.
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Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.
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It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
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Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Andrew Kreisberg are fantastic producers and showrunners, and they lead a very, very positive, fun, creative environment to work in and to work with.
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I try to have as much fun as I can, and I travel around the world doing what I love.
