Neil Finn Quotes
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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I stayed attached to baseball through the kids and through minor league baseball, and I'm very satisfied with the schedule it allows me to have, which means I'm home until my kids go off to college. I value that time.
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I've had many incidents in my life of racism. I've been thrown on the ground. I've been frisked. I've been arrested so many times I couldn't tell you. I have no need to talk about it.
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
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I feel God has sent me to Earth to sing. I started singing when I was five, but I don't think I've worked as hard as many other people.
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.
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Pain is never permanent.
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I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.
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I think that women are peacemakers by genetics, because we are the ones who stay at home and because we are the ones who suffer with the aftermath of war.
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He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.
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Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.
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When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.
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Declamation roared, while Passion slept.
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Give me a title and we'll start from there.
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When You and I behind the Veil are past, Oh, but the long, long while the World shall last, Which of our Coming and Departure heeds As the Sea's self should heed a pebble-cast.
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Permanent mass unemployment destroys the moral foundations of the social order. The young people, who, having finished their training for work, are forced to remain idle, are the ferment out of which the most radical political movements are formed. In their ranks the soldiers of the coming revolutions are recruited.
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In life, I have been a very lucky person; I have had a good married life, good friends, though I am not as educated as I would have liked to be.
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Modeling isn't boring.
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Before the quantum theory appeared, the principle of the uniformity of nature - that like causes produce like effects - had been accepted as a universal and indisputable fact of science. As soon as the atomicity of radiation became established, this principle had to be discarded.
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Art comes from art: I remember going to the Matisse show and seeing how Matisse had taken one of his own paintings, worked from it and transformed it, and that had led on to the next one and the next.
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I'm a lifer, yeah... I can honestly say I'm a lifer.
