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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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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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
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While I was obsessed with my own misery, there were other things occurring in the human universe.
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We are called to care for those sickened by pollution, house those displaced by environmental calamities, and heal the spirits of those - especially our youth - who are disheartened by a world where human survival is now in question.
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My head was full of tidying tips, and I had complete, albeit misguided, confidence that I could tidy any place.
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I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.
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Passion in Ireland is denounced as evil and obscene. Women are the snares set for us by the Devil.
