Arlene Dickinson 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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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.
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The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
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Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest.
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Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will.
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But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.
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I became a horror fan during the early 1960s, back when Hammer was putting out their groundbreaking 'Dracula' series with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, and grew up watching 'Dark Shadows.'
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I grew up in a household without a TV. We lived next door to a library for a while, and at one point, I checked out all the books in the fairy tale section. I remember the librarian's quiet smile as I'd bring back one stack and exchange it for another.
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Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.
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Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.
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American fundamentalist thought connected strongly to reactionary political ideology as nervous Christians pushed back against liberal reforms on many fronts.
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What we really need to avoid is this epidemic of false positivism and false happiness, which says if it hurts, it must be bad. Sometimes it hurts because you have a conscience.
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I think it's great anytime somebody can be in control of their own distribution.
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I think where people get into trouble is hiding and feeling ashamed about what they don't have any control over in the first place.
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Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.
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Sometimes being in control of everything comes with a lot of challenges.
