Nuala O'Faolain Quotes
..though silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you.
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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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You can't be a victim and heal.
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I mean, if a camera's on you all the time, you don't get real moments.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
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My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
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When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.
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The way we remember people, even their beauty is all so subjective and a matter of perspective.
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The commercial and subsidised theatre are intrinsically linked. I wouldn't have had the career I have had without the opportunities I had through the subsidised sector. However, I do think, in any walk of life, subsidy for the sake of subsidy is not always healthy.
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It's extremely important for people to be informed and to be educated and to know what's going in their community and in their country, but every now and then you just kind of want to turn the brain off for a little bit and just laugh and be silly.
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And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
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The bagel budget for 'Sex and the City 2' could pay for 'Ghosted.'
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There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.
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'Let byegones be byegones,' - they foolishly say,And bid me be wise and forget them;But old recollections are active to-day,And I can do nought but regret them.
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..though silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you.
