hit with your fist, not with your finger spread

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Shivering as she gripped the handle, she looked around the cabin one last time. The uneasiness was still there. Why wouldn’t it leave her be?

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?

I don't like people probing into my life, so I reveal as little as possible or lie about it as much as need be so as to give them something to write about.

Being a parent is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.

I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."

Onstage, it was always comfortable for me, because that's where I felt at home. Offstage, it was a different situation. I was still shy offstage.

The unbosoming oneself to another is a kind of release to the soul, which strives to lighten its burden and find ease by throwing off the weight that lay heavy upon it.

Short films don't go too far.

Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.