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Quotes by Irish Authors
"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self."
"Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack."
"A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle."
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
"Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver."
"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy."
"Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed."
"Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue."
"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met."
"The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills."
"Adversity is a severe instructor. ... He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper."
"Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and I'm having as an actor. I didn't expect the rest."
"Dreaming and becoming are completely separate parts of the process. However, they are both as important as each other. Never discount how powerful your dreams are. If you cannot visualise what it is you wish to become, then the brain doesn't have the first clue how to get you there."
"Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way."
"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
"We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine."
"The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed."
"I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale."
"I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center."
"Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference."
"Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls."
"It was nothing, just the normal thing to do at the time."
"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."
"I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo."
"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."
"The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain."
"You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one."
"You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic."
"A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town."
"Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together."
"It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering."
"Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes."
"To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill."
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