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When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.

Actor After Author Career
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I guess what I enjoy most is directing, because it incorporates all aspects of filmmaking. Directing is in the same line as acting - both are popularity contests, and in both you're trying to tell a story through the film as a medium.

Acting Aspects Because Both
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My favorite role ever was Alien in 'Spring Breakers'.

Alien Ever Favorite Role
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I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

Director Filmmaking Medium View
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Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

About Actor Changed Definitely
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When I sign on for a project, I'm there to give the director all the material he or she might need to tell their story, and that's the number one priority.

Director Give He He Or She
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I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.

Art Art World Because Bring
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School allowed me to have outlets so that some of the pressure was taken off the acting. Every role in every movie, I used to live or die by. Once I had these new outlets, I relaxed a lot more.

Acting Allowed Die Every
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If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

Able Animals Being Better
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I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears.

Am Best Clothing Cold
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I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.

Animals Be Kind Care Child
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For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.

About Bore Funny Incidents
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I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.

Became Box Connoisseur Letter
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I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.

Animals Could Dump People
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I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

Against Carefully Cats Cheek
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I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me.

About Because Holidays I Love
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I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically.

Automatically Come Fact I Think
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I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.

Couple Days Even Happened
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I will write another book if I feel like it.
Another Book Feel I Feel
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I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.

Animals Children Dependent Helpless
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If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.

Animal Bernard Calls Care
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There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.

Animal Consider Fall Farm
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They can't find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live.
Because Find House Keep
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Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

Escaping Home Longest Round
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My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

Ambition Full Mouth My Soul
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Am Day Establish Established
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
Discovery Mistakes Portals Are
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

Discovery Errors Genius His
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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Art Cannot Irresponsibility Part
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The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Actions Best Men Thoughts
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

Age Better Boldly Fade
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You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

Forget Heaven Kingdom Like
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

Abhorrent Being Church Heresy
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

America Because Christopher Columbus
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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

Against Always Apparently Artifice
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No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

Inclination Ink No Time Pen
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The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

Above Artist Behind Beyond
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When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.

Die Dublin Heart Will
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A nation is the same people living in the same place.

Living Nation People Place
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Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
Curves Emotion Governed Intellect
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My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
Cold Her Mind Polished
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

Balance Ground Happy Hunting
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

Else Love Love Is Mother
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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

Demand Devote He His
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I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

Age Allowed Child Coming
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Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

Battles Behind Forehead Fought
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The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

Get Men Now Only
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If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.

Become European First Ireland
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.

Actual Found He His
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Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

Committed English Ever Explains
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