Glen Hansard Quotes

In Irish law, busking is considered vagrancy - you can be arrested for it. It's risky asking people for money in public. So it's not like it's a high-art job. And people who do it as a high-art job make very little money.

Glen Hansard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: April 21, 1970

Topics

MoneyJobPeopleLawYouIrish

In my neighborhood, when you've got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

Joe Biden

EyeYouLookSayHimSomething

A dress should never take over someone.

Jenny Packham

DressSomeoneNeverOverTake

I moved to New York to do a play when I was 18.

John Gallagher, Jr.

New YorkPlayNewMovedYork

Mobile devices such as Android and the iPhone achieve their battery life largely because they can aggressively and quickly enter into and exit from sleep states. GPS prevents this.

Robert Love

LifeSleepAchieveiPhoneExit

Once I really got into securities fraud prosecutions, I came to realize how central they were to the maintenance of a free market and how, in many ways, they are far more important to the welfare of our society than many of the more sensational criminal cases that one hears about.

Jed S. Rakoff

SocietyFreeImportantMoreFraud

A computer is a great device because it enables you to do anything which is automatic, anything that you don't need your understanding for. Understanding is outside a computer. It doesn't understand.

Roger Penrose

GreatUnderstandingYouUnderstand

Transparency and effective tax co-operation must be shared principles applied by all. Until they are, nations will need to protect themselves against loss of revenues to tax havens.

Jose Angel Gurria

LossTransparencyTaxPrinciples

I refuse to be outworked, and I consider myself to have the heart of a lion.

Draymond Green

HeartMyselfLionRefuseConsider

Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it helped me figure out the anatomy and physiology of mythology and its relevance in a society more incisively. How is it that no society can, or does, exist without them?

Devdutt Pattanaik

ArtTrainingMedicalMeSocietyYou

People talk about the difference between radio acting, TV acting and stage acting, but I think it's all the same. For instance, when I played Vultan in 'Flash Gordon,' I put as much energy into it as I would with 'King Lear' - it's all part of the same thing.

Brian Blessed

KingPeopleEnergyThinkActing

To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.

Bruno Dumont

LiveArtistCountryDignityCritical

Finding your way doesn't mean surviving, just as pleasing an audience doesn't mean twisting your editorial around search engine optimization and Facebook algorithms.

Anna Wintour

SearchFindingWayMeanAudience

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