J.G. Farrell Quotes

Sometimes to realize you were well, someone must come along and hurt you.

I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing.

When you are on stage in front of an audience, you want to engage the entire crowd. If a thousand people are in the theater, you need to dance a thousand different ways, not one-thousandth of a way.

I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.

When all the experts and forecasts agree, something else is going to happen

So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.

Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both.

Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women.

You have to take risks.

My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform.

Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.

Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

I gave away two dogs years ago because I felt guilty at not being able to give them the time and attention they deserved. I now regularly feed an army of squirrels and wild birds around our house.

When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; when we commit violence against an infant boy, we call it circumcision.

There are 25 differences in the way women and men behave in the workplace. These 25 differences lead to men receiving higher pay and women having better lives or at least more balanced lives.

Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor.

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.

It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.

Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides.

But when feminists suggest that God might be a She without suggesting that the Devil might also be female, they must be opposed.

I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.

And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.

Women tend to immediately take responsibility if somebody messes up with both of us saying it's our fault. Men are quite happy for it to be your fault it seems like.

Music is always my great escape... I get to be that wild child and do whatever the hell I want on stage.

Without game, men prey on each other.

I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes.

Jimi Hendrix's music was escapism.

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

The first time you hold your baby in your arms, I mean, a sense of strength and love washes over you. It washed over me and I never thought that possible.

Her Majesty's Secret Service wouldn't have me on the payroll.

I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.

In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.

It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.

When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.

People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.

I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers.

That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.

If my parents had made love a tenth of a second earlier or later, I wouldn't exist. What an enormous miracle, just being given life.

On an unconscious level, the demonization of sexuality usually implies the demonization of males and the victimization of females.

She liked the way his smile took a long time to arrive and just as long to leave.

Painting is of course multifarious, and for all of us the goal is, gaining control without impeding the creative process.

It is inappropriate for the Bush administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war.

Its mostly the financial chicanery thats going on. People are saying What kind of trust can we put in this market?

The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.

With men, we blame the victim. We blame men because we have camouflaged men's victimization by teaching men to also be the victimizer. Men's victimizer status camouflages men's victim status.

Treat each class as if it were your first.

You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.

I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot.