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Brian Friel Quotes

I was a member of the Nationalist Party for several years. I don't remember how long. Those were very dreary days, because the Nationalist Party... it's hard to describe what it was. I suppose it held on to some kind of little faith, you know? It wasn't even sure what the faith was, and it was a very despised enterprise by everybody.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: irish
Birth: January 9, 1929 - October 2, 2015

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Faith Remember Long You Party Know

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

Joan Armatrading

Love Process You Write Order Tour

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

Marriage Home Children Wife Nest He

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

Men War Violence Ready Will Way

The first act is the easiest to plot. The second act is always the hardest to plot. Generally a good, you know, sometimes the third act can be difficult because you can get into a rut in the third act - everybody runs to their Corvette, has a chase, and you catch the bad guy.

Stephen J. Cannell

Good You Bad Know Sometimes First

Transgender casting is a kind of literalism. It is the same with racial casting. This means that you can now only play Othello if you are black. There is something quite tainted about it. It is a form of racism in itself.

Racism Black You Play Now Kind

For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.

Work Business Creativity Ideas Think

I know what it feels like to be an outsider.

Know Outsider Like Feels

We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down.

Money Slow Down Place Go Now

I describe my years in Los Angeles as 12 years of culture shock.

Culture Los Angeles Years Shock Los

My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.

Me Winning Say More Difference Made

Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it.

Bible Someone Nothing Read Knew

If you're going to be mad, at least let the people know what you're mad about.

People You Mad Know Going Least

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