Brigid Brannagh Quotes
A lot of people have a dissatisfaction or an anger in them, so as soon as something goes awry, they flip out.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Proust is a huge author for me.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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Whenever I get on stage, I feel safe and in control. Life can be so uncertain, but on stage, I always know how a drama or crisis is going to end. Acting is a great comfort blanket and has gotten me through countless personal crises. I am a firm believer that the show must go on.
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We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.
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A lot of my music has ambiguity and room for people to interpret.
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My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny.
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The martyrologies are catalogues in which are to be found the names of the saints with the days and places of their deaths and, generally, with the distinctive character of their sanctity and with an historic summary of their lives.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
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My parents both played golf and introduced me to golf when I was 5 years old. They took me to the driving range and I played around at the range and immediately developed an interest in it.
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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I'm an emotional person. I may not seem that way, but I'm an emotional person.
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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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From the day he first walked through the door of the Oval Office, President Obama's top priority has been growing our economy, creating good jobs, and rebuilding middle class security.
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You can say no to people who make you feel bad about yourself. To people who backstab you or make you feel anxious in any way.
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Don't go in and tell somebody else how to run their business.
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A lot of people have a dissatisfaction or an anger in them, so as soon as something goes awry, they flip out.
