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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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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Language does not make one an elite.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
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Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
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You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred!
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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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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It's not hard to get a girl if I wanted one. But it doesn't mean you want it, and even if you did, you're certainly not going to rub it in anybody's face.
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I don't ever want to be the type of person to tell you what to think or what to believe. Whatever stage in your life that you are in, I want you to organically reach whatever conclusions that you possibly reach.
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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.
