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.
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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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.
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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.
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I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.
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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.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.
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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.
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I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.
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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.'
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'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.
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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.
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When I exercise, I need to connect to myself and see how I'm feeling at the moment because my mood is constantly changing.
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I think I'm expected to behave in a certain manner.
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I used to spend my holidays there in my grandparents' large family house, with my numerous cousins. When I die, I am going to be buried in the village cemetery.
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I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl.
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Being a single woman is like going off to war.
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There is always sleaze in the news. And you know what? The news is always a combination of things that are interesting and things that are important.
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My hope is that I'm going to continue to make more and more challenging work that's going to come out more and more interesting. I don't know if that will always continue to happen, but every one of my films has definitely been a progression as far as complexity of narrative, character, and plot.
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I think everybody likes to play the villain. They're always much more interesting characters.
