Fiona Shaw Quotes
The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.
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Apple's advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn't excellent, it does the superlative hardware a disservice.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
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I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.
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Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
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You've got to be realistic.
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Science, at least as it has been practiced for the last century or two, begins by assembling facts—the data—and then seeks an overarching theory to unify and explain those facts. Whether it’s the big bang theory or plate tectonics or germ theory, from the cosmic to the microscopic, the approach is the same. Ignoring or denying inconvenient facts is not permitted. Trying to uncover facts that disprove a treasured theory is encouraged. This is part of the modern scientific method, which holds that theories should be subjected to rigorous attempts to prove them false before they become widely accepted (or discarded as incorrect). In the law, however, the process works in exactly the opposite direction.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I think every player wants to be acknowledged for what they have done. I think every player eligible for the Hall Of Fame feels that the ultimate validation is enshrinement.
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Oh, those scoundrelly Charity Commissioners! … By the side of these anthropoid apes, the genuine bookworm, the paper-eating insect, ravenous as he once was, has done comparatively little mischief.
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I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dangerous.
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The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.
