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Quotes by Irish Authors
"Winning the Pulitzer is not that big a deal. I have seen hundreds of plays that have won the prize and you couldn't sit half way through it. The Pulitzer is a common prize that means very little."
"Embrace your inner lunatic. Fun times guaranteed."
"It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof."
"We all need salespeople who help people with the same enthusiasm shown by a small child describing the best Christmas present EVER."
"But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based."
"A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample."
"I think with every writer there are two people there."
"International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge."
"So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I'm thin. I've got my hair. I'm well off. I survived, you know."
"I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine."
"He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature."
"Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett was another great joy."
"Life is a long preparation for something that never happens."
"What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information."
"I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world."
"We go in and I do my thing, and then we supplement it with whatever we want."
"In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas."
"I cannot have chaos erupting around me until I am prepared for it. I am a collector. I am an observer. I don't participate. My resources, and my standing, must be secure before I can allow the uncertainty of war to crash down upon us."
"This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world."
"In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone once more, in the midst of nothingness."
"The studio thought I was crazy to perform all of my own fencing stunts, but I loved it."
"Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind."
"Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then."
"Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation."
"Well, I think they're all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it's the young man or girl who goes through a trial or ordeal and hits a very low ebb but manages to get guidance from a Merlin type figure."
"My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything."
"An untied shoelace can be dangerous,' he said.'I could have tripped.'She stared at him. A moment dragged by.'I'm joking,' he said at last.She relaxed. 'Really?''Absolutely. I would never have tripped. I'm far too graceful."
"Let us walk into the conference room as equals and not second class citizens."
"Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste."
"Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end."
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