Liam Cunningham Quotes
I was so hungry when I started attempting acting. Not even to be a professional. Just to find out if I could act.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Republic holding a high rank among the nations of the earth have inspired me with feelings of the most profound gratitude.
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I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
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If you are good at studies, and you want to play cricket, you may work harder than any other person, but you may not achieve it. So it's something you have to balance in life and be practical where you are good and then channelise your efforts in the right direction to be successful in life.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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After 9/11, I changed a lot of the ways I viewed the world. I realized my comedy and my politics and my view of the world did not match. I had to start writing from my heart.
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I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.
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I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you.
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News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.
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On a purely personal level, it's very strange, because as a kid, Superman informed my personality. Now I've been given the job of forming Superman's personality and, in some ways, drawing on my own background.
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Don't ever give up. Believe in yourself or no one else will. My personal saying is: 'I'd rather die knowing that I tried to do what I love.'
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We're going to be human, and we are going to make mistakes, but you really should understand the power that you have and embrace it in a positive way.
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Squash is my passion, and it is in my blood.
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The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system.
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A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.
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I was so hungry when I started attempting acting. Not even to be a professional. Just to find out if I could act.
