Bernadette Devlin Quotes
One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!
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The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.
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When people first meet me, they're always like, 'What are you?' as far as ethnicity. And I've been pegged as 'ethnically ambiguous.'
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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
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Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times.
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I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.
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I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.
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I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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I was the one who was always calling people.
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I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!
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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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The American advertiser has made the superior American magazine of today possible.
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When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.
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I have no desire to go through the emancipation of women and homosexuals all over again.
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Sex is just another real good drug ... and it can make a junkie out of you.
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Toshiro Mifune was such an elegant hero, and there's something really empathetic about him.
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One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!
