Maria Doyle Kennedy Quotes

Sometimes, when you are not feeling really good is when you tend to write songs because you are internalising everything, and you are examining your thought process, and you are quieter and quite still, so it is when you write things down.

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• When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner.

  

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• My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.

  

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• Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.

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• I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.

  

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• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

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• You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!

  

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• The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.

  

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• The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.

  

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• Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.

  

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• The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

  

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• After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.

  

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• I still like my antique clothes.

  

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• We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.

  

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• It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.

  

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• I've always been into dressing nicely. My dad's really into fashion, also. We'll always go out and buy stuff. He has his own style and I have my own style, but it's a shared thing. Same thing with my grandfather; he was really into his style, so it's just sort of been passed down, I think.

  

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• I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.

  

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• It's a sin to be tired.

  

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• There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.

  

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• Sometimes, there's not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies.

  

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• Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

  

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• The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

  

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• Sometimes, when you are not feeling really good is when you tend to write songs because you are internalising everything, and you are examining your thought process, and you are quieter and quite still, so it is when you write things down.

  

  Maria Doyle Kennedy
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