Maria Doyle Kennedy Quotes
Nobody in my family plays music professionally, but I definitely grew up around the culture of when my parents got together, as well as a lot of eating and drinking going on, they would also sing - they sat around in a circle, and everyone had a party piece.
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My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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I still keep my accent.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
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I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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It's interesting how the Vatican has gotten so political when ultimately the Vatican ought to be working to lead people to Jesus Christ and salvation.
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Work up imagination to the state of vision.
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I wish to walk in such a line as will give most general satisfaction.
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.
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Nobody in my family plays music professionally, but I definitely grew up around the culture of when my parents got together, as well as a lot of eating and drinking going on, they would also sing - they sat around in a circle, and everyone had a party piece.
