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Fionnula Flanagan Quotes

I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing, for in the broader melting pot we get to look at some of these self-destructive attributes that we bring to bear upon our own quarrels and begin to solve them in ways other than just splitting apart.

Fionnula Flanagan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: irish
Birth: December 10, 1941

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Healing Me America Look Find Will

I always wanted to be an artist; being a songwriter for myself was always a must but being a songwriter for others has been a bonus.

Myself Artist Others Always Been

My father was Mickey Katz, who worked with Spike Jones and then went on to improvise some successful Yiddish parodies, some of which I perform. My favorite was 'Geshray of the Vilde Kotchke,' his version of 'Cry of the Wild Goose.'

Father Cry Wild Goose Successful

While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made.

Men Progress Labor Steel Blood

Who would have thought that a tap-dancing penguin would outpoint James Bond at the box office? And deserve to? Not that there's anything wrong with 'Casino Royale.' But 'Happy Feet' - written and directed by George Miller - is a complete charmer, even if, in the way of most family fare, it can't resist straying into the Inspirational.

Robert Gottlieb

Inspirational Family Happy Bond Feet

Everyone has a different opinion when it comes to caffeine during pregnancy. I work full time, and with the extreme exhaustion pregnancy brings, I need a little boost a couple of times a day. On days when I can't stomach coffee, green tea has also proven to be very helpful and soothing.

Work Time Coffee Day Tea Green

Ndamukong started out playing soccer, like his sister before him. She excelled at it, played for Mississippi State, made the Cameroon national team.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

Team Sister Soccer She Him Out

If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.

Story Crisis Up Different Disease

When my mother was dying, I cooked for her. One of the things I realised was that the smell and look of the food was key. I concentrated on how it looked on the plate. Even if the amount was small, it gave her a nourishment of a different kind.

Mother Food Small Key Look Kind

The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.

End You More Up Bigger Universal

Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S.

Childhood You Tyranny Sometimes Only

When you make a film, it's because it's important to you, it means something to you.

You Important Something Film Because

My philosophy is to always find the smartest people you can. Hire people smarter than you.

People Philosophy You Find Always

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