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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If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.
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I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.
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I think people read the tabloids because they want to see you eating a burger, or out of your makeup or doing something stupid because they just want to see that you're like everyone else. And that's okay. I don't want to catch myself anymore saying that my life is hard, because the good far outweighs the bad in my life. And it's easier to focus on those things, on the things that are important.
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Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.
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I've always been fascinated by people, their psychology, what drives them and trying to understand them.
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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.
