Liam Cunningham Quotes
On a job, there's so much commitment you have to give, in regards to time, research... I like the tunnel vision of it that prevents anything else from getting in. The creativity and collaboration required there is very rewarding.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
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If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.
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Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great.
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Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
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I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.
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I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.
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Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.
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The American multinational companies made millions and millions of dollars from globalization.
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I'd love to be able to draw or play guitar or dance. All three at the same time - that's the talent for me.
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When things seem to be slowing down, there's this little trick I like to play. I'd plow this virgin who's on her period, and after I'm done I'd just run out into the living room, or the dance floor, with all that bloody goop on my junk and yell, OH MY GOD, I'VE BEEN SHOT IN THE NADS! Yeah, good times.
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I don't resent anything.
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What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.
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On a job, there's so much commitment you have to give, in regards to time, research... I like the tunnel vision of it that prevents anything else from getting in. The creativity and collaboration required there is very rewarding.
