Brigid Brannagh Quotes
When I get excited about a character, I'll start doing things as the character and thinking about what the character would do.
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I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
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Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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Modeling is a job. Even my mum doesn't believe that I do work hard.
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Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.
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I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.
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Something I really hate more than anything else is clogs.
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You gotta find that hook so everybody can grab on to it. So that you're true to the culture but, at the same time, how it relates to the larger tapestry.
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Most of the time, I'm pleased that people don't recognize me. But I don't hate it when they do.
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Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
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In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.
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When I get excited about a character, I'll start doing things as the character and thinking about what the character would do.
