Erin McKeown Quotes
I think I have come across as "unafraid" because I really cannot control what comes through me in my writing.
Quotes to Explore
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Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
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I think the government must recognise that the wounds of conflict are even more grievous on the mind than the body, and indeed may even serve to fuel further conflict. Where conflict cannot be avoided, provision of adequate psychosocial services to prevent the adverse mental health consequences should take priority.
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I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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Christianity doesn't demand that we worship our ancestors. If we don't remember our ancestors, then, in all likelihood, we cannot also recall the distant past.
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A hard man is good to find.
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
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Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
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When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
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It's really fun to see a movie that you've heard about that's really good.
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MacAllister wasn’t always right, but he was smart enough to know that. He was willing to change his mind when the evidence pointed in a different direction. That fact alone put MacAllister very nearly in a class by himself.
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I am a humanist not a feminist. There's a big difference.
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Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.
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Everyone expects me to be 9 feet tall and weigh 200 pounds when they meet me.
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I think the secret is really observation. Well, if you observe what's going on and try to figure out how people are thinking, I think you can always write something that people will understand.
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I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.
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I'm very happy for whatever plaudits might come the way of my work, but I never ever sit down to write x with y in view - whether it's a reader, a prize or a sale.
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Run while you still have the chance.
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People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes.
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I think I have come across as "unafraid" because I really cannot control what comes through me in my writing.
