Maria Doyle Kennedy Quotes

I think everybody likes to play the villain. They're always much more interesting characters.

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• Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Three

• Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Good Friends

• My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Me
  • Nice
  • More

• God doesn't know things. He is things.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • God
  • Know
  • Things

• Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • America
  • Opportunity

• I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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  • Kind
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• I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.

  

  Foxy Brown
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  • Name
  • Prison

• Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Deal
  • Regulations

• I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Great
  • Moral
  • Courage

• A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Play

• We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • World
  • Education
  • Focus

• I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Love
  • Smart
  • Fighter

• I just write and do what I think is funny. Sometimes, you do have it in your head about certain bits. There are certain jokes where I know if I did them in certain situations, it would irk people. There are times where I look at the news and see a story going on, and I'm like, 'Wow, if I tweeted this, I would get press if I wanted to.'

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Think
  • Funny

• 'Entourage' was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they wanted to believe they could go on private jets and be hanging out in Hollywood, but as a show, comedically, it was not funny. Not a funny show. It's funny, ironically, because of how terrible it is.

  

  Adam Pally
  • People
  • Believe
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• I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.

  

  Patina Miller
  • Friends
  • Success
  • Judge

• When I exercise, I need to connect to myself and see how I'm feeling at the moment because my mood is constantly changing.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Feeling
  • Myself
  • Exercise

• I think I'm expected to behave in a certain manner.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Think
  • Expected
  • Behave

• I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

  

  Frederik Pohl
  • Book
  • Science

• I moved away when I was 17. It's been a mad journey, but I've met and made some incredible friends.

  

  Jessie Buckley
  • Friends
  • Journey
  • Mad

• If nature offers no home, then we must make a home one way or another. The only question is how.

  

  John Burnside
  • Home
  • Nature
  • Question

• Keep it simple: own as little as you can get away with, schedule everything, keep a notebook, don't let technology enslave you.

  

  Blake Mycoskie
  • Technology
  • Notebook
  • Enslave

• My husband has some very interesting hobbies, and through him, I've learned to fly and earned my pilot's license. Together, we fly all over the United States. Since our children are all grown now, we also travel a great deal in Europe, but we take commercial flights because our plane is not really equipped to make transatlantic flights.

  

  Betsy Byars
  • Great
  • Children
  • Together

• I think everybody likes to play the villain. They're always much more interesting characters.

  

  Maria Doyle Kennedy
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