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"I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything."
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"You can change a life by touching someone with simple, beautiful, kind, words and a loving smile."
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"We have to change our thoughts before things can change."
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"Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get this bike with seven gears and one of them razorblade saddles and purple paint and everything, and they gave me this light blue one. With a basket. A girl's bike.''Well. You're a girl,' said one of the others.'That's sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they're a girl."
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"You may turn every house in your neighborhood into a charity center, you may fill the land with soup-kitchens, but the misery of humans will still continue to exist until the character of humanity changes."
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"When you meet someone, and you find that they are prejudiced against your kind, it might be your chance, not to confirm, but to be the one to finally change their mind."
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"Every living object has to change every moment just to live."
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"Change is the rule. Permanence is an illusion."
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"Losing your job gives you the opportunity to make your life count."
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"If you don't like the solution, change the problem."
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"Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire damp could suddenly explode they'd seen the need for gods as the sort of supernatural equivalent of a hard hat. Besides, when you hit your thumb with an eight-pound hammer it's nice to be able to blaspheme. It takes a very special and strong-minded kind of atheist to jump up and down with their hand clasped under their other armpit and shout, "Oh, random-fluctuations-in-the-space-time-continuum!" or "Aaargh, primitive-and-outmoded-concept on a crutch!"
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"Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat."
Actor
"I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage."
Marriage
"I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin."
Ireland
"The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up."
Work
"In many ways, when you're young and sexy, it's very annoying to be whistled at and to have someone always trying to attract your attention, but now when it happens I find myself registering the fact almost warmly."
Attention
"My father was absent and he was a hero to me."
Father
"Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now."
Being
"With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain."
Challenge
"I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you."
Feelings
"I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely."
Trust
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