Ed Byrne Quotes
I did think about giving up smoking, but I decided not to, because I'm not a quitter. And I know that every cigarette I smoke takes five minutes off my life, but I also know it takes ten minutes to smoke it. That's a clear five-minute net gain, I reckon.
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I don't think it's good for anyone to be in the public light - for negative reasons.
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I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.
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I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that, not just musicians who act.
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The kind of artist I would like to be is definitely versatile. I don't like being boxed in or put into a genre, so to speak.
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Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand.
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One thing I have clear is that I don't want to work for money anymore.
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You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking. The Lord doesn't give us more than we can carry
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Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends.
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So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a person, it's a first... In that night I felt expansion, as if the world was branching out in shoots and growing faster than the eye could see. I felt smallness, how the earth divided into bits and kept dividing. I felt stars.
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Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.
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And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance.
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He said he wasn't ready to come out. But then he sat down for a while, came back, and made a shot like that. We wanted him to rest his legs. Your legs can suffer when you take as many shots as he does.
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Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
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The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.
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Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.
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Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today. But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that they're giving none away.
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I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.
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I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.
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I did think about giving up smoking, but I decided not to, because I'm not a quitter. And I know that every cigarette I smoke takes five minutes off my life, but I also know it takes ten minutes to smoke it. That's a clear five-minute net gain, I reckon.
