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I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
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There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.
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One moment cannot be the most important.
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
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Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.
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I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.
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Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
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Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while.
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So I just play the character, I play the lines.
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I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.
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I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride.
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A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
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The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.
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I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.
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To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.
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I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going.
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There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.