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 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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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.
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'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.
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Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.
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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
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I was not trying to write some sort of serious meditation on war and peace. 'The Grace of Kings' is meant to be a fun book. It's meant to be an epic fantasy.
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In a new interview, Newt Gingrich says he cheated on two of his wives because he was too consumed with love for his country. Yeah, apparently he misunderstood the phrase, 'Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.'
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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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.
