"My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as wee one."

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Source : "Natascha McElhone: my family values" by Victoria Lambert, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2009.

Natascha McElhone

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“How is it that one day life is orderly and you are content, a little cynical perhaps but on the whole just so, and then without warning you find the solid floor is a trapdoor and you are now in another place whose geography is uncertain and whose customs are strange?”
“If you treat your subject with seriousness and respect, other people tend to treat it the same way.”
“When your intention is great enough you will ALWAYS find the time and energy to accomplish your desires. You can state excuses to the contrary, but holding on to your old stories is just another way of wasting precious time.”
“When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.”
“Liberty is the freedom of individual to express, without external hindrances, his personality.”
“My now-wife - we got together in '81, we married a few years after - she's been very good in the past about going in the theater with me to see actresses I had known. But then, she's not an actress.”

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“A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.”
“Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping.”

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