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Conor McPherson Quotes

If I wasn't plagued by needing to write things, that would perhaps be a blessing.

Conor McPherson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: irish
Birth: August 6, 1971

Topics

Blessing Write Things Would Perhaps

The thing is, I don't want to be sold to when I walk into a store. I want to be welcomed.

Angela Ahrendts

Walk Want Store Welcomed Sold Thing

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

Death Die Worst Able Even Wants

Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips on the table has more leverage than everyone else. He can eventually outbluff everyone else and outraise everyone else at the table. That's what has happened and it needs to be corrected.

Nature Capitalism Grow Table More

A lot of prophets have gone to jail.

Jail Gone Prophets Lot

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Work Hard Work Chance True Why Hard

I first saw 'West Side Story' on stage in 1958. I was in the army, having been conscripted while under contract to MGM. I caught the musical in New York, fell in love with it, bought the album, and memorised the whole thing.

Love New York Story Army New First

If we don't accept the uncomfortable proposition that every perpetrator of virtually every act of evil in our history has been a human being like us, then we actually foreclose the possibility of understanding how we do this to one another and therefore make it impossible to figure out how we might prevent these things.

Joshua Oppenheimer

History Evil Impossible Understanding

For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families.

Family Fight People Important Our

Raise your ambition beyond where you're capable of now. There's nothing about my hometown that said I'd be working with Fortune 50 CEO's, Olympians, at the highest level.

Brendon Burchard

Ambition Hometown You Said Nothing

You can't expect kids who don't have enough to eat to do well.

Suzanne Bonamici

Enough You Eat Expect Well Kids

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

Music Today Me Rock And Roll Problem

As the BBC approaches the final phase of decisions about its future, it will be important for those involved to be established in post and ready to take responsibility for implementation of the outcome.

Pauline Neville-Jones

Future Responsibility Decisions Ready

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