Austin Clarke Quotes
Passion in Ireland is denounced as evil and obscene. Women are the snares set for us by the Devil.

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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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At the beginning of the week, I roast a ton of vegetables so I can use them for the next few days. I also plan out meals in advance.
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It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.
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I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.
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Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.
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The popular rallies at Rabaa al-Adawiya and other squares across Egypt will defeat despotism and terrorism in the long run. But in the meantime, any solution that fails to restore the public's confidence in the ballot box and falls short of alleviating the sense of victimhood in the Morsi camp will be doomed to failure.
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Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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Now that Arab women are pouring into the streets by the million, men discover with dismay that they, not women, were the captives of the harem dream.
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Passion in Ireland is denounced as evil and obscene. Women are the snares set for us by the Devil.