Domhnall Gleeson Quotes
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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I do think that there are people who are able to connect with and empathize with anyone who is going through something difficult, just naturally. I don't think it's a world of effort for everyone.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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I always say to my agents, you go through one of these big kind of movies, everyone makes money, but like, I said, 'I'm the one who's gotta go make it, and if I don't have my heart in it, and it's like a love affair, I'm not going to do a good job. Then, and I don't want to just get paid. I just, I don't want to do that.'
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I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.
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Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations.
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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family members. If this happens to me, I vow to seek out the responsible parties and haunt them to the point of death.
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Not all civil servants admire strong political leadership. But if you want to change things for the better you need strong political leadership.
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An apple resists being eaten. An apple is not eaten, it is conquered. The crunchiness of a pear is far more appealing. It is giving and fragile. To eat a pear is akin to … kissing.
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All I ever wanted to do is to paint sunlight on the side of a wall.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.
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Patents have long served as a fundamental cog in the American machine, cherished in our national soul.
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I do not look at myself every morning and think: 'Oh, my gosh, I am so perfect, so beautiful, so talented.' No, I like to make fun of myself.
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A savage review is much more entertaining for the reader than an admiring one; the little misanthrope in each of us relishes the rubbishing of someone else.
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Sneakers have become a significant category for us and a very tangible reminder that what our customers want and wear is changing.
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Everyone's got to have a bit of faith.
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Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
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The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.
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For me, even my break time I like to pull out the bow and just go over a Vivaldi sonata and keep my head sharp, keep everything sharp.
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Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.
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Even at Westchester High in West LA, I was class clown.
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Fail again, fail better.