Andrew Hozier-Byrne (Hozier) Quotes
I remember writing lyrics for 'Take Me to Church' for a long time before I even had a song in mind for. It's not that I was trying to write that song for a year, but sometimes you just kind of collect lyrical and musical ideas and don't actually complete the song until you feel like they work together and have a home.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's a robot.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
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Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.
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If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.
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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
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I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they're very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.
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Music starts playing like the end of a sad movie.It's the kind of ending you don't really wanna see.'Cause it's tragedy and it'll only bring you down.Now I don't know what to be without you around.
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There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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The body that we tend to is only temporary, while the soul that we neglect is # eternal .
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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say.
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I remember writing lyrics for 'Take Me to Church' for a long time before I even had a song in mind for. It's not that I was trying to write that song for a year, but sometimes you just kind of collect lyrical and musical ideas and don't actually complete the song until you feel like they work together and have a home.
