Neil Jordan Quotes

For me now, it's about what you would write and what you wouldn't write, and that's how I select what I am going to do. It can be quite nice being brought a concept by a studio for me to work on.

Neil Jordan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: February 25, 1950

Topics

WorkI AmMeYouNiceNow

The more horrible the truth that you admit, the better you connect. You have to tell the truth.

Jill Soloway

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I was kind of a nerdy, geeky type. And I loved math. People teased me about it. I felt pretty much like an outcast.

Jennifer Doudna

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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The U.S. Forces are winning in Iraq. It is to be hoped that they will win at home also.

John Linder

HomeWinWinningWillForcesIraq

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.

Robert Powell

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I don't get offered many comedies.

Anna Maxwell Martin

GetManyComediesOffered

So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.

Michael Chabon

GreatScaryDelightBelongDidHow

Cardinal Raymond Burke is a 66-year-old guy who lives in Rome, dresses like Queen Elizabeth, and talks like someone who majored in misogyny at some bogus, backwoods, Bible-banging tent school.

Mike Barnicle

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Most Jupiter-sized planets orbit the mother star in a highly elliptical orbit. This means they will often cross the orbit of any Earth-like planet and fling it into outer space, making life impossible. But our Jupiter travels in a near-perfect circular orbit, preventing a collision with any Earth-like planet, making life possible.

Michio Kaku

LifeMotherSpaceImpossibleWill

On the whole, books are indeed less finite than ourselves. Even the worst among them outlast their authors - mainly because they occupy a smaller amount of physical space than those who penned them. Often they sit on the shelves absorbing dust long after the writer himself has turned into a handful of dust.

Joseph Brodsky

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It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.

Jonathan Davis

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Being out in the street is not an expectation of privacy. Anyone can look at you, can see you, can watch what you're doing.

Peter T. King

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