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"The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way."
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"It was easier to deal with Tennyson when he was fighting me; but having him on my side was frightening, because now I didn't know who the enemy was."
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"Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with."
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"It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth."
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"The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes."
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"The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way."
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"Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity."
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"In sum, every pore of his being oozed one thing okay, FINE. Every pore oozed two things. The first was irrelevant. The second was dangerous."
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"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."
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"I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain."
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"As if violence could make light. Maybe violence could make light."
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"People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing."
People
"I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along."
Acting
"I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down."
Art
"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."
Actor
"At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?"
Acting
"I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level."
Play
"Acting is way of making yourself exist."
Acting
"Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie."
Film
"People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy."
People
"I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me."
Death
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