Fiona Shaw Quotes
A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.
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It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.
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I think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at myself even if it's a tough lesson.
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As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing headbands and sweatbands, and whooping at people. It didn't quite work.
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Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
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I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.
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Grandma and Mama showed me that you always have to give as much as you can, no matter what.
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I grew up on theater, and honestly, I'm trying to figure out a way with a family and kids and living in Los Angeles to get back to the stage because it is my first love.
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The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.
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I can tell you that once upon a time when I was doing public events people would ask me, 'What do you think about the arts?, What do you think of the role of women?, What do you think of men?, What do you think of all of these things?', and now they ask one thing, and that one thing is this, 'Is there hope?'
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Surely there's a deeper pursuit to music than getting bros to pump their fists in the air.
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A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.