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I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I don't think a fiction writer has anything over a journalist. It's all about the good word, properly inserted.
Colum McCann
Truth
Good
Better
Word
Poet
Journalist
Believe
Think
Inserted
About
Morality
Properly
Writer
Over
Than
Fiction
Fiction Writer
Hold
Anything
The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of those places where you shouldn't.
Colum McCann
You
Benefits
Being Ignored
Way
Those
Contemporary
Makes
Go
American
Being
Where
Want
Places
Ignored
Novelist
Celebrity is something I've never been into, and never will be.
Conleth Hill
Will
Something
Never
Been
Celebrity
The only thing at the back of my mind is longevity, and I'm really lucky that I've constantly been in work since I left drama school.
Conleth Hill
Work
School
Mind
Drama
Drama School
Back
Constantly
Only
Since
Longevity
Been
Left
The Only Thing
Really
Lucky
Thing
The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail.
Conor Cruise O'Brien
Seen
United Nations
Member
Main
Main Thing
Fail
Enables
Proven
Governments
Survive
Nations
To Survive
Capacity
United
Thing
If you deserve it, go get it.
Conor McGregor
You
Go
Get
Deserve
My family's lineage, we are warriors. The McGregor clan, we are warriors all through. We are famous all through the world for our fighting capabilities of all generations. So I have no doubt that's stood to me and that led me down this path and gave me what I have.
Conor McGregor
Family
Me
World
Path
Doubt
Fighting
Down
Gave
Our
Clan
No Doubt
Through
Generations
Lineage
Led
Stood
Famous
Capabilities
Warriors
What someone else does or doesn't do has no effect on me and what I do.
Conor McGregor
Me
Else
Someone
Does
Effect
A lot of people cry and complain and put their hand out and beg. It never goes well.
Conor McGregor
People
Complain
Out
Never
Put
Cry
Well
Hand
Lot
Beg
Goes
Posture for combat is so vital.
Conor McGregor
Vital
Posture
Combat
I'm already the face of the UFC, plus the face of boxing, WWE, and Hollywood.
Conor McGregor
Face
Plus
WWE
Boxing
Hollywood
You beat him verbally. You beat him mentally, and then finally, you beat him physically. That's the three ways to beat a man.
Conor McGregor
You
Man
Three
Finally
Ways
Physically
Mentally
Beat
Him
Verbally
Then
We're the only animal that wakes up and doesn't stretch.
Conor McGregor
Animal
Only
Wakes
Up
Stretch
My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he's doing. He's focusing in on what you're doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.
Conor McGregor
Me
You
Ways
Focused
Focusing
Unpredictability
He
Glass
Like
Shatter
Freeze
Him
Opponent
Doing
Hit
Move
Separates
Your
Many
I'm in the game of spinning plates. I'm spinning a boxing plate. I'm spinning a Tae Kwon Do plate. I'm spinning a Jujitsu plate. I'm spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. I'm spinning a karate plate. If I was to put all them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.
Conor McGregor
Game
Down
Would
Would-Be
Spinning
Wrestling
Put
Like
Freestyle
Boxing
Off
Them
Shoulders
Karate
Plate
Plates
Load
When I am free to train and free to move, I feel like a gorilla in the jungle. Then, when there are a bunch of media obligations, I feel like I have been captured and am being kept on display.
Conor McGregor
Obligations
Free
Feel
Like
Gorilla
Am
Been
Train
Bunch
Jungle
Move
Being
Then
Display
Captured
Media
Kept
Muhammad Ali is a legend, a hero of mine.
Conor McGregor
Hero
Legend
Ali
Mine
Muhammad
Muhammad Ali
Everything I've been thinking, every vision, even down to every shot I throw, it just ends up here in reality. Whether it was in a fight and how to react or whether it was in a stadium with screaming fans or whether I was in a fancy car or the best clothes ever, I always put myself somewhere.
Conor McGregor
Best
Myself
Fight
Reality
Vision
Fans
Car
Somewhere
Clothes
Down
Every
Thinking
Everything
Throw
Put
React
Always
How
Been
Up
Just
Stadium
Screaming
Ends
Whether
Fancy
Shot
Even
Ever
Here
Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.
Conor McGregor
Fear
Word
Way
Ritual
Another
Different
Manifested
Different Way
I don't feel bitterness, I don't feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.
Conor McGregor
Me
Anger
Bitterness
Fighting
Emotional
Never
Feel
Towards
Anybody
I've learned new footwork patterns that are very unusual. I've learned how to find a lower centre of gravity, and I've found more angles to throw shots.
Conor McGregor
Find
Angles
More
Throw
New
Footwork
Learned
Unusual
How
Very
Patterns
Centre
Lower
Shots
Found
Gravity
When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.
Conor McGregor
People
Right People
Those
Find
Environment
Messing
Around
Am
Places
Iceland
Prepare
Right
I feel you're in charge of your own situation.
Conor McGregor
You
Own
Situation
Charge
Feel
Your
I am not stupid. I am a very bright guy. I know that in the fighting game, you get people who get brain damage and do themselves long-term harm.
Conor McGregor
You
Game
People
Stupid
Fighting
Guy
Long-Term
Know
Am
Brain
Brain Damage
Very
Get
Themselves
Who
Bright
Damage
Harm
There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.
Conor McGregor
Money
Addiction
Definitely
I see fighters make funny videos about me and stick them on Facebook and get 20 likes. When I make a video, I sell it to Fox and make seven figures. That's the difference.
Conor McGregor
Funny
Me
Facebook
Videos
Seven
See
About
Likes
Make
Stick
Sell
Get
Difference
Them
Video
Fighters
Figures
Fox
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