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I grew up during one of Northern Ireland's most complex periods.

Jonathan Anderson

Complex Up Periods Most

I grew up in Northern Ireland, in the middle of nowhere, and when you are poor, you are really poor. And when you are rich, you are very rich. This is not a new phenomenon.

Jonathan Anderson

You Rich New Poor

People don't think that bread is part of Asian culture or Asian food culture, but it's quite prevalent in Northern China, and you see it throughout Japan and as you go to Taiwan.

Food You Culture People

I'm very much a hippie from Northern California.

Jessica Chastain

California Hippie Very Much

At one point, I was seriously considering playing Huck Finn in a production in Northern Maine in the dead of winter.

Winter Dead Seriously Playing

I've heard from other artists that people are a little bit more reserved in Northern Europe, which comes across at concerts, where the audience may be quieter. So this means less hecklers, but maybe it also means that people may not be as open about how they felt. I'm not so sure this is especially true of Denmark, but it's what I've heard.

People True More How

I'd heard a lot of Motown and Stax when I was a kid, but the more well-known end of it. On Jam tours, we had a DJ called Ady Croasdell who ran a '60s club. He turned me on to underground stuff and what people call northern soul. It just blew my mind.

Me Soul People Mind

In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac.

James Longstreet

Time Face Army Short

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

Teacher Daughter I Am School

In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints are black.

Henry Louis Gates

People Black Here Years

I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.

Discrimination Worst Up Example

People were so keen to get investment. In those days, there was quite significant unemployment in Northern Ireland, and that had been the general pattern in Northern Ireland for many, many years.

People Unemployment Investment Days

The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity.

People Government Unity See

In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side.

People Victory Philosophy Differences

Fragile economies and weak infrastructures tend to worsen the results of climate disruptions, a problem exemplified by Bangladesh's vulnerability to monsoons, accelerating desertification in northern China, and, most visibly, Hurricane Katrina's devastation in New Orleans.

Problem New Results China

If you sit down with British officers or British senior NCOs, they understand the sweep of history. They know the history of British forces not just in Afghanistan but the history of British successful counter-insurgencies - Northern Ireland, Malaysia.

Stanley A. McChrystal

History You Understand Down

We've had to pull out of so many countries in Northern Africa.

Africa Out Many Pull

When you project weakness throughout the world, and you have a failed foreign policy, this is what you get. And now we have chaos in the Middle East, have ISIS taking over Iraq, Syria, Northern Africa, Egypt.

You World Chaos Weakness

When I was growing up, Belfast City Hall was surrounded by security, and we had no access to it. But now, people come in and out of it all the time. On a nice day, office workers and students sit on the lawn outside and have lunch. It's great to see how Northern Ireland has changed. To be part of that is fantastic.

Day Time People Great

As I told Piers Morgan, 'Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.'

Only Confession Irish Interviews

Funnily enough, Northern Ireland is a great example of where politics can win over conflict. The decision to down arms and follow a political path would have been unthinkable once. It shows just what is possible.

Politics Path Great Decision

I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well away from the Troubles.

Childhood Well Countryside Away

It's a complicated relationship with the place one grows up in, particularly if it's Northern Ireland.

Relationship Place Complicated Up

I think a lot of us who grew up in Northern Ireland weren't politicised enough, frankly.

Think Enough Us Who

If you are a Northern Irish actor, maybe subconsciously more than consciously, you do have an instinctive responsibility at some point to tackle the recent history of where we have come from. It's not only a responsibility, but a privilege.

History You Responsibility Some

Ever since I left Northern Ireland, I've always been pretty comfortable on my own, which contradicts a lot of people's perceptions of me.

Me People My Own Own

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