Brigid Brannagh Quotes
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
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I love simplicity.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
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I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.
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As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.
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There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them.
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
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We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.
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Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
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I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.
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Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.
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As long as you're getting along, it's nice to work with someone you know well.
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Standing with the poor means walking away from unethical leaders, even when their companies are 'succeeding.'
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I grew up Irish Catholic with a bunch of kids at Catholic school.
