Damien Rice Quotes
I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.
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Accomplish something every day of your life.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.
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I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics.
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There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
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This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
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Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.
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Language does not make one an elite.
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I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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I'm not an architectural composer.
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I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
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You have to have in mind what you want when you go public. It's not just an end in and of itself. Suddenly, you have investors to satisfy. Investors who want - who demand - a return.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
