"Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there."

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Source : Interview with Michael Koresky, reverseshot.org. November 10, 2005.

Neil Jordan

#Growing Up Quotes #Kids Quotes #Boys Quotes

“Stay neurotic. Stay frustrated. Stay emotional. Stay excited. Your life is happening.”
“Wisdom: It's something that you know when you see it. You can recognize it, you can experience it. I have defined wisdom as the capacity to make judgments that when looked back upon will seem to have been wise.”
“Growing up I definitely looked up to Dominique Moceanu. She was my favorite gymnast and she was on that '96 Olympic team. She was always so fun to watch. I kind of wanted to model my career after hers.”
“A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000 tides had come and gone and little remains visible of the greatest military landing in man's history of endless warring. What's to be seen is mostly in a superb museum and a panoramic cemetery. The cemetery memorializes with dignity and grandeur the event and the dead, and moves one deeply. Before they die less precipitously and/or in lesser purpose, Americans who can should visit World War II's Normandy Beach. Such seeing and remembering helps a man's perspective.”
“Compassion is the heart that never stops loving others. It is like a wellspring that never runs dry.”

Source : Ryuho Okawa (2002). “Love, Nurture, and Forgive: A Handbook to Add a New Richness to Your Life”, p.40, Lantern Books
“In other words, the hidden subsidies [designed to help individuals seeking college degrees] are not helping those who most need help in getting a degree. It's also helping lenders, by providing an incentive to borrow. So why not take that $22.75 billion or so that we're already spending and putting it directly toward making public higher education free?”
“The technology is not only the way we change stories, but also changing the relationship to the consumer.”
“If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. And really, that's what that was about-if you open up too much, you're asking to get your teeth kicked in.”

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