Fiona Shaw Quotes
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.
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It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.
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Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.
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Men will not always die quietly.
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We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.
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There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
