Quotes by Irish/Ireland authors (page 33)

"Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again"

"Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained"

"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"

Seamus Heaney, Poet

"At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure"

Seamus Heaney, Poet

"As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note"

Seamus Heaney, Poet

"A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups"

Seamus Heaney, Poet

"It's obvious that if you're going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that they're in and use as little or as much as necessary"

Cillian Murphy, Actor

"I don't think they'd ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I'd love to play Chuck Baker"

Cillian Murphy, Actor

"Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work"

Robert James Graves, Scientist

"I believe that the whole human race is the family of God"

Pat Buckley, Clergyman

"We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them"

Kenneth Branagh, Actor

"I like to cast actors I admire, one's that are talented. Each one will bring something new to the part. This play has been done thousands of times and now certain characters are too familiar"

Kenneth Branagh, Actor

"I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos"

Kenneth Branagh, Actor

"Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty"

Kenneth Branagh, Actor

"With this realization, came a growing need for men and women willing to take up arms in an effort to protect our American way of life and the freedoms so many of our ancestors died to entrench"

Jim Walsh, Politician

"In my younger years my dedication may have expressed itself egotistically"

Cyril Cusack, Actor

"I love the theatre and theatre people"

Cyril Cusack, Actor

"We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like ants and we all want the same thing. And it's not one queen. It's not one queen with the wings"

Andrea Corr, Musician

"Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it's gone"

Andrea Corr, Musician

"I think everybody had difficulties with that dynamic, turning the family into a band and being constantly together. So everybody, as individuals. had things to sort out"

Andrea Corr, Musician

"There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters"

Garth Ennis, Writer

"I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently"

Garth Ennis, Writer

"I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith"

Garth Ennis, Writer

"You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone"

Ninette de Valois, Dancer

"Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull"

Ninette de Valois, Dancer

"And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance"

Ninette de Valois, Dancer

"I always wanted to be a cowboy, and Jedi Knights are basically cowboys in space, right?"

Liam Neeson, Actor

"I believe in the power of weakness"

Pat Buckley, Clergyman

"What Ireland needs now above all else is peace"

Albert Reynolds, Politician

"I am hugely proud to have played for Ireland"

Kenny Cunningham, Athlete

"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"

Stephen Rea, Actor

"I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting"

Stephen Rea, Actor

"There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that"

Cillian Murphy, Actor

"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"

Robert James Graves, Scientist

"I believe that sex is good and so is the body"

Pat Buckley, Clergyman

"A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic"

Pat Buckley, Clergyman

"There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them"

Kenneth Branagh, Actor

"I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure"

Kenneth Branagh, Actor

"Our soldiers and their families are benefiting. They deserve good, quality housing and they need it"

Jim Walsh, Politician

"Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history"

Jim Walsh, Politician

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Quotes by Irish authors