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Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa. Gerry Adams

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If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response. Gerry Adams

You Situation Response Armed Beg

You can only judge anything that happened in the times, in the times that that happened. Gerry Adams

You Judge Only Times Anything Happened

I think there is a huge responsibility upon governments to understand the consequence of their decisions. Gerry Adams

Responsibility Think Understand Governments Huge Huge Responsibility Decisions Consequence

When I wrote 'Before The Dawn,' I made it quite clear that there are lots of people involved in my life who I can't talk about simply because I'd put them at risk. Gerry Adams

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I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief. Gerry Adams

Grief Think Worst Worst Kind Kind

If I didn't forgive the people who took me into the barracks and beat me unconscious over a period of days during the period when the British state was indicted for inhuman and degrading treatment in 1971-72, or even the guys who shot me, if you don't forgive them, you end up with unnecessary baggage. Gerry Adams

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And for some reason, when I'm sad, I do listen to Leonard Cohen, I do listen to Joni Mitchell. I do find myself going to the music that's actually reflecting my mood, as opposed to sticking on Motown, which might actually bring my mood up. Glen Hansard

The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don't understand people who get up at 9 o'clock in the morning, put on the coffee and sit down to write. Glen Hansard

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The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present. Glen Hansard

Technology People Thought Rest Our Our Lives Locked Has-Been Distraction Drifting Been Modern Being Modern Technology Moment Filled Lives Present

This weird thing that musicians have... it's got something to do with approval, and not feeling good enough, and therefore going out and being great somehow makes your life valid. Glen Hansard

I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music. Glen Hansard

Music Blessed Guess Way Able Feel Make Just

Do I create conflicts for myself? Sure I do. Glen Hansard

Myself Sure Conflicts Create

What happens to us all, I think, when we pick up a pen, is that we just become snobs. Glen Hansard

Become Think Pen Pick Up Just Happens Us

I busked from the age of 13 until I was 18. Glen Hansard

Age Until

Well, playing a guy who writes songs and busks on Grafton Street in Dublin and falls in love with Marketa Irglova wasn't very difficult for me. There was very little acting going on. Glen Hansard

Love Me Difficult Guy Writes Songs Well Dublin Falls Very Going Little Acting Who Street Playing

Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking. Glen Hansard

Singing Everything About Songwriting Well Learned

In Irish law, busking is considered vagrancy - you can be arrested for it. It's risky asking people for money in public. So it's not like it's a high-art job. And people who do it as a high-art job make very little money. Glen Hansard

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Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the pen must come in to tighten it up. Glen Hansard

Best Song Way Pen Out Possible Must Best Way Write Come Tighten Hand Up Estimation Much Your Keeping

Not to sound egomaniac or anything, but just to get under people's skin like that, and for them to believe in you and believe strongly enough to write... it's flattering and it helps you during the day. Glenn Quinn

Day You People Skin Believe Enough Strongly Write Like Sound Get Egomaniac Just Anything Flattering Them Helps

As soon as I did, everything, the whole room, just clicked. Glenn Quinn

Everything Soon Clicked Did Just Room Whole

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