Conor McPherson Quotes

I have a theory about Ireland, being at the edge of Europe. For 1,000 years, people didn't know what was beyond. But we thought about it - a lot. And that 'beyond' became internalized in our psyche.

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• We continue to be bullish on China.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • China
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  • Bullish

• My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Time
  • Long
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• I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • School
  • Day
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• I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Think
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• The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.

  

  Tammy Bruce
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• In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.

  

  Tea Obreht
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• I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Mother
  • Pretty
  • Inspiring

• Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Business
  • Charity
  • Hardest

• I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.

  

  Aaron Peirsol
  • People
  • Hope
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• That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
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• I'm not a Democrat.

  

  Aaron McGruder
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• Time was God's first creation.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Time
  • God
  • Creation

• As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.

  

  Frances O'Grady
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• We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.

  

  Harrison Ford
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• There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

  

  Pat Conroy
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• Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.

  

  Owen Glendower
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• Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

  

  Barbara Kruger
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• No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• From a very young age, I would fall off the bed and wake up on the floor because of dreams. I have a memory from the age of four in which I felt God.

  

  Ayelet Zurer
  • Up
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• I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Civilization
  • Felt
  • Poison

• Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers.

  

  Andrew Card
  • Believe

• The theatre has always been voraciously omnivorous. Dramatists have always raided every medium to find grist to their mill: myths, folk tales, newspapers, novels, films, works of art of all kinds.

  

  Lee Hall
  • Art
  • Theatre

• I tended to be the nerdy kid - stood at the back, watching other people having fun - I wasn't always necessarily a big part of the fun myself.

  

  Jack Thorne
  • People
  • Fun

• I have a theory about Ireland, being at the edge of Europe. For 1,000 years, people didn't know what was beyond. But we thought about it - a lot. And that 'beyond' became internalized in our psyche.

  

  Conor McPherson
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