History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points of view, belief in simple solutions, lack of balance of mind, absence of an imaginative understanding.
It's just very homey in Ireland. It's very comforting and comfortable. There's lots of fireplaces with fires. It's just really cozy.
I was a huge Ann-Margret fan, and I wanted to be like her.
I've always been really comfortable around athletics, I've just never been comfortable playing anything.
I have a small child, so the idea of getting up at 3 a. m. to train before a day of shooting. . . I just don't have it in me, although I have so much respect for people who do.
I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.
I always have directors who are somewhat frustrated because they'll reference a beautifully obscure film from the '50s or '60s or '70s, and I've not seen it.
The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Boxing is a glorious sport to watch and boxers are incredible, heroic athletes, but it's also, to be honest, a stupid game to play. Even the winners can end up with crippling brain damage. In a lot of ways, hustling is the same. But you learn something special from playing the most difficult games, the games where winning is close to impossible and losing is catastrophic: You learn how to compete as if your life depended on it. That's the lesson I brought with me to the so-called "legitimate" world.
I can reach the mass audience if I come from different perspectives on every song.