Neil Jordan Quotes

It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.

Neil Jordan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Being able to stay with a character over the course of years is a gift.

Jennifer Hale

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I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.

Jennifer Weiner

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One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist.

Anish Kapoor

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I consider the Stooges to be pop music.

Siobhan Fahey

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Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.

Simone Weil

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The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

Robert Burton

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Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.

Roman Polanski

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It's a question of finding the right thing, if I'm going to be an actor... if I have to get up eight times a week for a number of months, I want to be excited and challenged from the day I start to the day I leave.

Jason Alexander

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I do probably 80 or 90 per cent of the cooking at home.

Colm Meaney

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People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

Clarence Thomas

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I have never met a feminist who didn't have a father.

Brian Azzarello

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I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don't remember any of the details.

Brooke Langton

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