Maria Doyle Kennedy Quotes
The best thing anybody ever told me about acting - and I think it's probably true for life, generally - is listen. You've really got to watch, and you've really got to listen. Not see and hear.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
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Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
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When I'm doing my own makeup, I just stick to a bit of black liner, some blush and a nude glossy lip.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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O let the organ, many-voiced, sing boldly, O let it roar like spring's first thunderstorm! My half-closed eyes over your young bride's shoulder Will meet your eyes just once and then no more.
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She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn's wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks... (iViva la Gloria!)
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It doesn't mean much;It doesn't mean anything at all.The life I've left behind meIs a cold room.I've crossed the last lineFrom where I can't return.Where every step I took in faithBetrayed meAnd led me from my home.And sweet sweet surrenderIs all that I have to give.
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The best thing anybody ever told me about acting - and I think it's probably true for life, generally - is listen. You've really got to watch, and you've really got to listen. Not see and hear.
