Andrew Hozier-Byrne (Hozier) Quotes

When I write songs, I try to remove myself a little bit. Obviously, they're very personal to me, but it feels easier if I feel like I'm writing characters.

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• I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.

  

  Patricia Ireland
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• I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.

  

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• I like men who paint or write or do something creative.

  

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• If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

  

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• I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.

  

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• I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.

  

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• I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.

  

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• It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

  

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• I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.

  

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• If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.

  

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• I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.

  

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• The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.

  

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• VR is going to become something mainstream, but it's not going to happen right away. You just don't have the horsepower to make it happen on a device, much less a cheap enough and comfortable enough device that a normal consumer is going to want to have.

  

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• I've always been happy with my body.

  

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• My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.

  

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• When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.

  

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• America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.

  

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• To be a more efficient, faster, and cheaper way to send money around the world, you have to be able to get in and out of Bitcoin. You need to have a liquid exchange on either end of the corridor.

  

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• The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.

  

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• As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.

  

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• I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and I can notice I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom.

  

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• When you're writing a book, you don't want it to be overly trendy because you want people to enjoy it for years and refer back to it.

  

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• I started writing music in a French way: more focused on lyrics than melody.

  

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• When I write songs, I try to remove myself a little bit. Obviously, they're very personal to me, but it feels easier if I feel like I'm writing characters.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Writing