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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.
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On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.
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Social media is hugely important as a vehicle for communication. That's the reality today, whether you like it or not. The good part is that you can continually share news about yourself and your company. But it can also make the design timeline more challenging.
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... why do people who live in the country always give themselves such airs?
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It's okay to love something bigger than yourself without fearing it. Anything worth loving is bigger than we are anyway.
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Sean Óg ó Hailpín.... his father's from Fermanagh, his mother's from Fiji, neither a hurling stronghold.
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I find with television, you have to play personality, whereas onstage, everyone talks about 'the character,' and what you do. It's a very different thing, because stage is much bigger, but on television, for things to come across to the public, I think you have to play a bit of your personality.
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I wanted to be a rock star.
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If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
