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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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"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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"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'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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"To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting."
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"The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes."
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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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"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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"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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"The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood."
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"I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did."
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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
"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."
Actor
"I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion."
Business
"People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy."
People
"Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie."
Film
"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."
Ambiguity
"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'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
"I don't feel ashamed of my wife's political background, and I don't think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North of Ireland for the last 20 years should be ashamed. There you are."
Wife
"I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down."
Art
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