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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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 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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If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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When we do something we have never done, we are already on the road to healing. We must break the routines.
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I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour of my fellow-men. I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force. I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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I love working with women.
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And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.
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I think it talks about the fact that there are black people in the world who have tremendous amount of talents and have no channel through which they can those talents.
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I try to have as much fun as I can, and I travel around the world doing what I love.
