Fiona Shaw Quotes
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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.
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Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.
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The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first place. That's the approach used by Startpage and its European parent company, Ixquick.
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There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.
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I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me.
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I use the PhotoReady Foundation almost every day, and their lip glosses are fantastic.
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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
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The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.
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The first band I was ever in, I played guitar. We did Gary Glitter and Green Day covers at the time. We were called Fizz. I have no idea why we picked that. We were, like, 12 years old.
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I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.
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After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
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The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.
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The challenge that so many people have is not knowing how to take that first step of reaching out to another person for help.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.
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I don't believe that in the name of the holiness of the city you have to put barbed wires, machine gun nests, mine pins and everything of that, in the name of the holiness of Jerusalem.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
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People don't know that when there is something running in my mind, I start smiling. If I'm angry, I smile and blush.
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If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.
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Theater dates very quickly.
