There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.

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Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.

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

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

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

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

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I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

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

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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.

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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.

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