Erin McKeown Quotes
I think I have come across as "unafraid" because I really cannot control what comes through me in my writing.
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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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It's easy to be cynical about American politics. It's more important not to be.
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That's when you know you're the greatest: when you're the greatest, and people still put odds against you.
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Kira watched them talk and noticed how they quickly fell into the easy give-and-take of Starfleet-trained information exchange. It was a skill she had always admired in Sisko, Jadzia, O’Brien, and Julian, but hadn’t imagined it extended to all Starfleet officers, even former ones like Ro. Klingons don’t do this, she mused. Or the Romulans or the Cardassians. They have their own methods, their own martial cultures, but nothing that can compete with this. Ro
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I wrote my first play because I wanted to try directing something, and I couldn't afford the rights - it was an adaptation of a book called 'The Wave' by Morton Rhue.
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There may be challenges or crosses that may have delayed your goals temporarily, but now it’s time to move forward.
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I think I have come across as "unafraid" because I really cannot control what comes through me in my writing.
