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Quotes by Irish Authors
"I drink to separate my body from my soul."
"It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great - everybody working together. Sometimes it didn't feel like a film set. It wasn't technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable."
"What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than begin talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England, and make the old men jealous, if old men are ever capable of any emotion."
"Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you can get from it on this new day which has been granted you."
"I believe Congress has a duty to do so as well; not simply as a body of legislators, but more importantly as a community of friends, neighbors, parents and Americans."
"For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms."
"The fly-by-nights don't want to spend any time with you."
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
"A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind serene and dutiful towards her again, he was made aware dimly and without regret of a first noiseless sundering of their lives."
"Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require."
"Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it."
"The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area."
"I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for."
"From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies."
"That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere."
"Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical."
"There was all the world and his wife."
"The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer."
"Some time ago, I told Larry King that I planned to live to be 102. I still do."
"Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse."
"This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high profile here and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat."
"Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me."
"For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of a man, even our anthropologists have realised that, is to speak of him as though he were a termite."
"Holly's theory about the army," Sharon explained.And what is it?" Denise asked, intrigued.Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity."
"Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses."
"The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return."
"Are you an angel or a devil, sir? I need to know. Are you taking me up or down?"
"That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow."
"I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped."
"Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country to receive submissions from the general public, also our opponents."
"What's that supposed to mean? A wolf's head on a stick. Big wolf barbecue tonight? Bring your own wolf?"
"But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I've several friends just haven't made it by taking Prozac."
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