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We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.

~Gabriel Byrne

Topics: Angry Cry Difficult Each Emotions Example Extremes Find For Example Get Inside Laugh Most Other Part People Pretty Read Street Tend Think Thinking Through Time Walk You

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Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.

~Gabriel Byrne

Topics: Because Business England Forth Global Ireland Issues Local Now Politics Say Used Where

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Corporations are the new dictators.

~Gabriel Byrne

Topics: Corporations Dictators New

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The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change is, ironically, what has kept it constant throughout the ages.

~Gabriel Byrne

Topics: Ages Call Catholic Catholic Church Change Church Conservative Constant Innately Ironically Kept Peter Resistance Rock Themselves Throughout

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I don't disrespect anybody who espouses a particular religion or belief - that is their own right to do that. But I think it's terribly important to look beyond the comfort that religion gives.

~Gabriel Byrne

Topics: Anybody Belief Beyond Comfort Disrespect Gives Important Look Own Particular Religion Right Terribly Think Who I Think

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I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.

~Gabriel Byrne

Topics: Could Culture Identity Irish Lose More Product Sense Than

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Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.

~Gabriel Byrne

Topics: About Another Being Experience Form Get Happen Heard Heavy Listen Listened Often Once Person Prayer Real Say Somebody Terribly Too

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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'

~Gabriel Byrne

Topics: Actor Any Good Got Say Sorted Themselves Truthfully Yeah

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Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from the label that is usually attached to them, either pillagers or deviants who came and brought back loot to Norway. It was an incredibly sophisticated, complex and layered culture. They had their own laws, many of which protected women.

~Gabriel Byrne

Topics: About Apart Attached Back Brought Came Complex Culture Deal Either Generally Great Great Deal Had Incredibly Know Label Laws Layered Many Norway Own People Protected Sophisticated Speaking Them Think Which Who Women

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Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land; and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women.

~Gabriel Byrne

Topics: Able Divorce Husbands Kingdoms Land Own Progressive Rights Rule Terms Very Were Women

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Actor

Born: May 12th, 1950

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