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"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."
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"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."
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"I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across-not to just depict life-or criticize it-but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. Things aren't that way."
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"Make movies my friend " make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."
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"My poems are only bits of scratchingon the floor of acage."
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"A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart."
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"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."
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"Music gives life to the soul."
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"Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."
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"Music gives strength to the soul."
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"I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion."
Business
"I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me."
Death
"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."
Actor
"Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie."
Film
"My kids act all the time and it's exactly what I used to do."
Time
"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
"Acting is way of making yourself exist."
Acting
"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 think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down."
Art
"At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time when people seemed to have found a way out of the sectarian division of the country."
Time
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