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Fiona Shaw

"There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing."

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"There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing."

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"Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th."
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"I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity."
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"Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy."
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"So I just play the character, I play the lines."
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"Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while."
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"The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor."
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"I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride."
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"My mother taught me to read."
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