Fiona Shaw Quotes
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Imperfection is perfection.
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I write in a small office at home.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.
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I don't see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we've been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women.
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A great painting is a great painting.
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I am supposed to set an example to young players.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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I'm kind of a private person.
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Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.
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Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
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When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.
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If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
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I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.
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One Tweet can be heard 'round the world if the right people retweet it and the right people notice it on their feeds.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
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To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to be in when you're just not used to it... But I've never been lonely. And with my kids Mia and Joe that remains the case.
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Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.
