For those of us who are fortunate to share an Irish ancestry, we take great pride in the contributions that Irish-Americans.
I'm going to teach you to HATE spending money.
The whole business of marshaling ones energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
I don't mind playing absolute bastards. . . I just don't want to play the grouch.
I find it very difficult just to sit. I would love to learn how to do that with contentment.
I'm a taskmaster. I was brought up that way, and I'm sure I imposed that on my kids.
I do a lot of planning and plotting. That's my greatest weakness. If I'm not terribly careful, I'll plan to a point where it could come out cut and dried.
I have a very strong belief in what I like, or a very strong opinion in genre films that I like to watch.
The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.
You can convene a wider cross-section if you have no turf to defend, because then you don't cut across anyone else's agenda and you can achieve a great deal.
There was a band in San Diego, Bluegrass Etc, that played a weekly gig. My parents would take my brother and me every Saturday night for 7 or 8 years. Sean and I started taking lessons with them and they gave us a great foundation in bluegrass instrumentation. They were the lens through which I saw music for a very long time.