Conor McPherson Quotes
I'm not a good storyteller - I much prefer to be with people who are chatty, to have the luxury of listening.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic fiction, and I know of at least one who writes young adult books.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.
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I like to be goofy. I like to make people laugh. I like to have a good time as much as possible.
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Guess in my brain I have a figurative 'man card' that's got certain punches that need to be punched.
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Only in America can a Barack Obama happen. Only in America can a Don King happen.
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I'm not a good storyteller - I much prefer to be with people who are chatty, to have the luxury of listening.
