Brenda Fricker Quotes
I was covered in scars from the beatings, and she used to say it was a hockey... She'd apologize. She was on pain. I understand that now, but you don't when you are three and four and you're being beaten to death with a hoover.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
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I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.
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Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.
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3) Stories to end all stories on a given topic, don't.
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Now get off my dick, dick's too short of a word for my dick, get off my antidisestablishmentarianism you prick.
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One of the most difficult of the philosopher's tasks is to find out where the shoe pinches.
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When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country.
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I finally learned from Fred Durst, who is of my generation, that 'selling out' means every ticket at The Forum got sold. I don't think Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera sit there agonizing over their record sales. The term 'sell out' needs to be eradicated from the language, because if you don't 'sell out,' guess what? An asshole will.
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But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it rational? Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this Earth to do.
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I wouldn't be who I am without my husband, who handled the business end of Donna Karan so I could be creative.
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My obsession with James Franco borders on the unhealthy.
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When a father of a daughter dies, you elevate them. And you sort of deify them.
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Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.
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Healing is a different type of pain. It’s the pain of becoming aware of the power of one’s strength and weakness, of one’s capacity to love or do damage to oneself and to others, and of how the most challenging person to control in life is ultimately yourself.
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I love being a producer, and I think I essentially still operate as a producer even though I now have control of marketing and the ability to green-light shows - something every producer wants but that they don't get!
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I like good food and decent wine as much as Roy Jenkins does, but I keep quiet about it.
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I was covered in scars from the beatings, and she used to say it was a hockey... She'd apologize. She was on pain. I understand that now, but you don't when you are three and four and you're being beaten to death with a hoover.
