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 a nation of celebrity and hero worshipers, so much so that we make heroes out of those who aren't, such as John Wayne: a patriotic, red-blooded, two-fisted American who spent the Second World War in the trenches on the movie lots of Hollywood.
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A nascent economy needs a transparent and accountable government and an efficient civil service to help meet social needs. Its people need jobs and a belief in their country's future. A surfeit of aid has been shown to be unable to help achieve these goals.
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If you're going to write, then write a novel with a Haitian woman in it and try and describe her accurately. When you can do that, you can write about people.
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When people ask me where I am from I never say, 'Serbia.' I always say, 'I come from a country that no longer exists.'
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Fashion has always had the ability to affect lives, to touch people. But for the longest period of time, we've said, 'Oh, we're just pages of a magazine; that's what we all look at.' It's more than that.
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A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
