Fiona Shaw Quotes

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• Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

  Fiona Shaw

  Happiness, Joy, Kind

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• To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.

  Fiona Shaw

  Hard Work, Joy, Noble

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• The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.

  Fiona Shaw

  Energy, Actors, Enormous

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• I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride.

  Fiona Shaw

  Running, Thinking, Should

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• I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

  Fiona Shaw

  Writing, Stories, Ireland

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• I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

  Fiona Shaw

  Heart, Night, Film

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• I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.

  Fiona Shaw

  Mother, Order, Singing

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• There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

  Fiona Shaw

  Happiness, Done, Demographics

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• One moment cannot be the most important.

  Fiona Shaw

  Important, Moments

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• I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

  Fiona Shaw

  Running, Want, Exhausted

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• Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

  Fiona Shaw

  Acting, Misery

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• Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.

  Fiona Shaw

  Men, Three, Potters

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• I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

  Fiona Shaw

  Men, Intention

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• The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

  Fiona Shaw

  Nouns, Obsession, Obsessed

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• I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going.

  Fiona Shaw

  Talking, Knowing, Chaos

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• There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

  Fiona Shaw

  Remarkable

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• My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.

  Fiona Shaw

  Mother, Brother, Uncles

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• The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.

  Fiona Shaw

  Democracies Have, Rights, Democracy

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• I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

  Fiona Shaw

  Hate, Conservative, Murder

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• Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while.

  Fiona Shaw

  Style, Done

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• I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.

  Fiona Shaw

  Hot, Next, Born

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• There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.

  Fiona Shaw

  Relief, Worst

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• A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

  Fiona Shaw

  Song, Play, Piano

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• Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.

  Fiona Shaw

  Mean, Years, Democracy

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• I had a ball doing Harry Potter.

  Fiona Shaw

  Balls, Potters, Harry Potter

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