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"I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and I've tried to include that in the script. I worked really hard to find the heart of the book."
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"True love asks no question of the heart. It knows with surety."
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"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to."
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"The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth."
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"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see."
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"Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact."
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"It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray."
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"The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart."
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"If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it."
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"Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart."
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"I wear my heart on my sleeve."
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"It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days."
Movies

"I took two years away from making films to write a novel."
Writing

"The End of the Affair is almost like a play."
Literature

"For me now, it's about what you would write and what you wouldn't write, and that's how I select what I am going to do. It can be quite nice being brought a concept by a studio for me to work on."
Work

"When you've written a movie, you then get together with a whole lot of people and make it. In many ways, I think it is far nicer to be with people rather than being completely solitary."
People

"I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing."
Film

"Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there."
Vision

"Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales."
Movies

"The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into."
Society

"Never make a promise - you may have to keep it."
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