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“James Joyce wrote the definitive work about Dublin while he was living in Switzerland. We're all where we come from. We all have our roots.”

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You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure.

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The Atlantic Ocean was something then.

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The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human…

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The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that wakes you…

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How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”.

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To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got my first…

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You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I…

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The only riots were the people trying to get tickets.

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I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

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There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play.

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Feydeau's one rule of playwriting: Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B. Knock Knock. Enter Character B.

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I wanted to be a Bride of Christ but I guess now I'm a young divorcee.

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Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I…

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There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.

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You say fate is almost indispensable to literature - I think it's completely indispensable, at least in a novel, because a novel always has…

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I like what Barcelona is doing. This city almost perfectly combines its natural advantages with cultural attractions, IT parks and first-rate educational opportunities. The…

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I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins,…

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Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well.

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