Maria Doyle Kennedy Quotes
Music just makes sense to me. I don't ever worry when I'm singing. It's the safest place. I am a bit of worrier.
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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I think that Amanda Nunes and Julianna Pena and Valentina Shevchenko... they've showed how much this level has gone up in female fighting in a very short period of time.
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I've been very lucky.
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Green roofs, roadside plantings, porous pavement, and sidewalk gardens have been proven to reduce flooding. They absorb rainwater before it swamps the streets and sewage systems.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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The Senior Tour is a good concept, although frankly I'm not astounded at its continued success. It gives a lot of guys an opportunity to extend their careers.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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Graham Greene's work must be included in any survey of top-rank spy novels, and 'Our Man in Havana' may be his best.
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Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.
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Madeline Kahn is one of my favourite people in the entire world and one of the funniest. She was a talented Broadway star and also sang opera.
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All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.
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I am enormously susceptible to religious environments - the music, the liturgy and the prayers.
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Music just makes sense to me. I don't ever worry when I'm singing. It's the safest place. I am a bit of worrier.
