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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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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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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I have a no-apology policy. No apologies for jokes. I apologize in my real life all the time. I say ridiculous things, I make mistakes constantly. But when I'm on stage, I'm at a microphone... it's a joke!
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I believe that the day one stops being spiritual, one ends up being religious. I live by the adage that the only certainty in life is death. We should, therefore, learn to live for the day and be content.
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We wanted to more richly experience why we were alive, not just make a better life, and so people went in search of things. The great thing that came from those that time was to realize that there was definitely more to life than the materialism of the late sixties and early sixties. We were going in search of something deeper.
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Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we 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.
