Conor McPherson Quotes

The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older person seems so sure of it. I was interested in the way that many of us go through the whole of our lives staying with someone just out of complacency, because leaving isn't easy.

Conor McPherson

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When I say I'm famous, I'm not kidding myself. I know my place in the celebrity kingdom - right at the bottom next to reality-show contestants, local politicians, and day-players on 'Law & Order.'

Max Joseph

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If you're still wondering about details - how am I going to get these two to meet, or whatever - when you're writing, you can't pay proper attention to the sentences themselves.

John Irving

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I've come to accept who my readers turn out to be, rather than having some sort of demographic target.

Simon Winchester

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I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors.

Tom Robbins

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You can't think of technology as separate from all of our human drama anymore.

Robin Sloan

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I like it when it's nice and quiet. I'm not a big city person.

Louis Oosthuizen

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When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.

Loni Anderson

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We've been worried for some time that one of the ways that North Korea can retaliate against further escalation of tensions is via cyber, and particularly attacks against our financial sector. This is something they have really perfected as an art against South Korea.

Dmitri Alperovitch

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The place where I had so much success as a driver would be where I had my first win as a team owner.

Bobby Rahal

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I have to be honest with you: I'm a huge fan of Conan O'Brien.

Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

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I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value.

Paul Walker

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I position everything else in my life around making movies.

Richard King

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