Ciaran Hinds Quotes
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
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Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.
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This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
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I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.
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No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.
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Satin rays and coloured daysStark blue horizonsNaked limbs and wheat bins, hazy afternoonsVoicing, rejoicing the wine cups do bringPussywillows, cat-tails, soft winds and roses
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I think I'm alright as a lyricist, you know? But then what will happen every couple of months or so is that I'll hear a song I've never heard before and feel I've gone right back to square one.
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I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions.
