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 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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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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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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It's not my goal to be a famous actor.
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Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
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I don't care who you are, the pressure is on to go to the next task immediately. What happened to the days of hanging out in the hammock all afternoon?
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The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.
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Whenever journalism students ask me what they should be doing, I say that if you're on social media, you should be following a ton of people that you don't necessarily agree with just to get their perspectives.
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Acting careers don't come out fully formed - not unless your name is Jaden Smith and your dad has done it all.
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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.
