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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We're gonna do it like George Foreman. We're gonna name all of our kids Mariah no matter if they're boys or girls. Mariah No. 1, Boy Mariah, Man Mariah, Tall Mariah. It's gonna be a house full of people named Mariah.
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God requires his people to shine as lights in the world. It is not merely the ministers who are required to do this, but every disciple of Christ. Their conversation should be heavenly.
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We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. For God's sake, look after our people.
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It's pretty simple to me: we come from a really grounded world where anything you say could be the thing that the scene becomes about. We're always treating it as if we would treat it in real life. It's all observation.
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A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
