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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Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
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The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
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You can write the best column in the world on Monday, and it does you absolutely no good on Tuesday. There is no way to win. You just write until you are tired, they fire you, or you die.
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The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.
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In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away.
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A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
