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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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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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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It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.
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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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When I go away to do a movie, I bring the blanket I've had since I was a little girl. It helps me sleep. I also always bring my laptop so I can E-mail friends. And I bring my dog, Beauty, wherever I can.
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One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.
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Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
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One of the things that's fun about TV is it grows, and you set goals and aim towards stuff, and one of the writers has an idea, and you say, 'Ooh, that's so much cooler. Let's do that instead.' It's so much more fluid and organic that way, and that's the most fun part about it.
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He considered himself to be a thoroughly useless man, taking up space in a world to which he contributed nothing - but he did have a talent for baking… The gas oven might blow up in his face, at last bringing him peace, but if it didn't, he would at least have cookies for Agnes.
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I try to have as much fun as I can, and I travel around the world doing what I love.
