It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.
I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems to be the time to stop.
I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.
I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.
I know without our fans and the devotion of our fans we wouldn't be here. I don't mean to put them down, but I'm just stating a fact that it is hard to play to people that see you all the time and it takes a lot of fun out of it in some ways.
Some of the smallest things on a smaller film, to me, are greater achievements than on a big film when you have the resources and the time and everything else.
If you shoot with a billion cameras, then there's no perspective. You want to use one shot at a time, so it's better to discover what that is before you shoot, rather than trying to make something in the cutting room, and then it just becomes generic...
I do have to step out and take time to let people know that I'm Ronnie Dunn and not Brooks and Dunn.
When I get all focused on songwriting, I get into all the marketing and promotion that we do to make it happen. Then the right song comes along and blows it all out of the water. The right song will do it for you every time.
We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
Each time there is a conflict between Israel and Gaza, accusations fly over who started it, each side blaming the other.
We should have a time to reflect on the accomplishments of the military, of their sacrifices, of their failures.
It's probably time to end the global war on terrorism.
The U.S., often in secret, carries out counterterrorism missions all the time, with drones in places like Yemen and Somalia.
An Egyptian newspaper once publicly identified me as the C.I.A. station chief in Cairo. It seemed so stupid at the time. I was only 24, a little young to be a station chief, and, of course, I was never with the C.I.A.
