Patrick Kavanagh Quotes
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I was just finishing up 'Spotlight' in Toronto - I finished it on a Tuesday and started 'True Detective' on a Friday. So I was missing rehearsals, unfortunately, which I hate and why I never like to work back-to-back.
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Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market.
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I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.
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He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.
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This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer.
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Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
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It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
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I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.
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I feel like every day I discover new actors and new filmmakers and different genres, and it's just so cool.
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The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
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I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.
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Money often costs too much.
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No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced.
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My favorite thing about New York is the view, the skyline.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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The Cause of God is not a theatrical display that is presented every hour, of which some new diversion may be asked for every day. If it were thus, the Cause of God would become mere child's play.
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I never wanted to be an actress, really. I sort of caught the bug fairly late. So many people are so intrigued with the glamour and celebrity of acting, and a lot of actors start acting when they are 9 or 10 years old - so young. I started when I was about 24.
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There's a world of difference between a strong ego, which is essential, and a large ego-which can be destructive.
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It doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life, because that's going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.
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Throughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word 'school' - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning 'leisure.'
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I don't like that feeling of holding back difficult questions. I feel like the more I can be transparent in the way I approach a story, the more it makes a satisfying programme.
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What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
