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I have a high tolerance for discomfort.
Andrea Corr
Tolerance
High
Discomfort
I don't really live by plans.
Andrea Corr
Live
Really
Plans
I have no regrets.
Andrea Corr
No Regrets
Regrets
Everything is nicer if you feel you're in love.
Andrea Corr
Love
You
Everything
Feel
Nicer
I am wholesome.
Andrea Corr
Am
Wholesome
I go to churches to pray, but I don't go to mass.
Andrea Corr
Churches
Mass
Go
Pray
Never, ever wear three-quarter length trousers. Even in the summer.
Andrew Scott
Summer
Wear
Never
Trousers
Length
Even
Ever
I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring.
Andrew Scott
Humor
Find
Boring
Sort
Any
Acting
I have a terrible superstition of writing things down.
Andrew Scott
Writing
Down
Superstition
Terrible
Things
I don't like it when people ask actors to work for free - on the fringe - as if it's some kind of virtue. That annoys me - actors should be paid well.
Andrew Scott
Work
Me
People
Free
Virtue
Kind
Some
Like
Annoys
Well
Fringe
Ask
Should
Paid
Actor
I want to keep everything balanced. That's why it's important not to have too much fanfare.
Andrew Scott
Too Much
Important
Too
Everything
Balanced
Want
Fanfare
Much
Keep
Why
Really I just want to get on with my job, which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that.
Andrew Scott
People
Simple
Job
Pretend
Lots
Get
Just
Different
Want
Which
Really
Different People
I think in my job, it's quite difficult to find work on television... you don't necessarily want to get a profile for something that you don't fully believe in.
Andrew Scott
Work
You
Job
Believe
Difficult
Think
Television
Find
Something
Get
Quite
Want
Fully
Profile
Necessarily
I've played all these extreme guys, but playing an everyman type has its own challenges.
Andrew Scott
Challenges
Own
Type
Everyman
Extreme
Guys
Played
Playing
I like clothes.
Andrew Scott
Clothes
Like
The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.
Andrew Scott
Yourself
Always
Goal
Trying
Just
Actor
Stretch
The kind of actors I admire move through different characters and genres.
Andrew Scott
Characters
Kind
Admire
Through
Genres
Move
Different
Different Characters
Actor
People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers.
Andrew Scott
People
Will
Think
Distracted
Jobs
Take
Advance
Because
Get
Figures
Careers
Audiences like to be challenged and to be actively involved and try to guess an outcome.
Andrew Scott
Try
Guess
Outcome
Like
Involved
Audiences
Actively
Challenged
It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
Anne Enright
Life
Words
Trace
Effect
Very
Hard
When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.
Anne Enright
Feeling
Down
Everything
Clear
Obsessive
Disciplined
Get
Much
Working
Away
Need
I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.
Anne Enright
Monsters
Tell
Absolute
Come
Narrative
Quite
Where
Stories
Interested
Roots
Why
You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job. You have to be the thing, right? So instead of writing the story, you somehow are the story. And that I found that sort of terrible.
Anne Enright
You
Book
Writing
Win
Job
Somehow
Finish
Write
Instead
New
Terrible
Sort
New Job
Done
Story
Your
Whole
Found
Right
Thing
I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
Anne Enright
Happy
Insofar
Writer
Since
Became
Been
Very
Anybody
Full-Time
If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. It's the people who are always on the brink of crisis who don't hit bottom who are in trouble.
Anne Enright
Life
You
Together
People
Trouble
Crisis
Bottom
Put
Always
Falls
Hit
Just
Again
Apart
Your
Who
Early
Brink
I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
Anne Enright
Work
Natural
People
Writing
Think
Distinctive
Find
About
Sentences
Many
Things
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