Aoife O'Donovan Quotes
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I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
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I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
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He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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Oh, it is quite possible that none of us in 'Downton' will ever again get the ratings this has had. But from a career point of view, it has opened so many doors.
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You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy.
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It's much like playing jazz, flying. It's multitasking in real time. You have a number of instruments that alone won't tell you exactly what the airplane is doing but together give you a picture of everything that's going on.
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Any film I do needs to excite me at a script level.
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I would rather my films be well-known than I be well-known.
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
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I grew up watching horror movies with my dad. For as long as I can remember. I grew up loving being terrified. 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' at sleepovers. Hiding behind my fingers.
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Family is always first. Even though my kids are older - my son is 25 and my daughter is 21 - I still like to sit down and have dinner with them as much as I can.
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I don't want any competition; I've finally made it! I don't want any young bucks knocking me off and taking my job, so stay in school! Stay in school and get a nice job working in an office!
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In 1979, the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 in Smith v. Maryland that a few days' worth of phone records for a single individual were not protected by the Fourth Amendment. The NSA today, though, collects hundreds of millions of phone records from hundreds of millions of Americans without an individualized warrant.
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It's very hard to impose your beliefs or a specific message about any given movie. I think that audiences always extract what they want from a film even if something isn't overtly political. They may or may not get it, and it's hard to control that.
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One or two years ago, I didn't know who I was on court and I used to swear a lot. But now I've learned how to cope and can therefore win 10 matches in a row. I want to be remembered as a good player rather than an idiot on court.
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It's far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.
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Sometimes it's fun to be the guy who doesn't know that he's bad, like the character I played in 'True Blood'.
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I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.
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Same if you had a bad show, it just rolls off you more easily.