Declan Lynch Quotes
Inarticulate wretches have been behind most of the major advances in civilization. If Vincent Van Gogh had been able to get on with his neighbours, then he might have become an excellent painter-decorator, and received a big turn out at his funeral, and that would be that. But the genes wouldn't let him.
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.
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I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry.
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I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor.
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I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.
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I am very fortunate to have a career. I always have to act. I don't know if I'll have a career to support it for the rest of my life, but I know I'll always act.
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One thing I learned working at magazines was that if you couldn't get people to look at a page or a cover, then you were fired. It was all about how you create arresting works, and by arresting I mean stop people, even for a nano-second.
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Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.
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I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
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I cry a lot, you know. Which is very difficult for a man to recognise, but I do. I cry in movies, you know, just watching movies.
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I was a very wanting child.
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I drink too much, I smoke too much, I take pills too much, I work too much, I girl around too much, I everything too much.
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Seeing someone else perform and letting me be the critic for once... that's not a bad thing.
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We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much we had to hide our love, however guarded we had to be about our pleasure, I could not long be miserable about a thing so very sweet. Nor, in my gladness, could I quite believe that anybody would be anything but happy for me if only they knew.
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I'm a perfectionist.
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The people who were marching at Peggy O'Hara's funeral gave the impression they were associated with the INLA, which is supposed to be on ceasefire and to have decommissioned some of their weapons. I ask if they could have honoured her in a more dignified way.
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Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.
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Inarticulate wretches have been behind most of the major advances in civilization. If Vincent Van Gogh had been able to get on with his neighbours, then he might have become an excellent painter-decorator, and received a big turn out at his funeral, and that would be that. But the genes wouldn't let him.
