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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The Green Belt is a Labour achievement - and we mean to build on it.
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I've never called President Obama a racist. I love President Obama. I pray for him all the time. God loves President Obama. God loves you. And God loves me.
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Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work God into your schedule, but always work your schedule around Him.
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The power of transcendent vision is greater than the power of the scripting deep inside the human personality and it subordinates it the scripting, submerges it, until the whole personality is reorganized in the accomplishment of that vision.
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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.
