Chris O'Dowd Quotes
Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it.
Chris O'Dowd
Quotes to Explore
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The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
D. B. Sweeney
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My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.
Irina Shayk
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There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.
Ireland Baldwin
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People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of locals go to McDonald's, Applebee's and the like.
Nathan Myhrvold
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In the 1960s and '70s, there wasn't much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very new.
Harold E. Varmus
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We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.
Narendra Modi
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Scientifically, information is a choice - a yes-or-no choice. In a broader sense, information is everything that informs our world - writing, painting, music, money.
James Gleick
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I really don't want to do anything that resembles stand-up comedy. But I will agree to say that I am doing it, and I will hope that people expect it to be that, so I can thwart those expectations.
Lucas Neff
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It takes about a year to write an opera for me, but not a really a year of writing. I'm touring at the same time, and I'm playing, sometimes doing smaller projects.[The opera] Akhnaten fits in with Gandhi and Einstein, so that forms a trilogy in a way.I picked people who were these kind of larger than life characters, who kind of changed the world they lived in by almost the force of their personality and their inventiveness. People that I think not only do I admire but I think they're admirable people.
Philip Glass
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I came from a supportive home with a mommy and a daddy, and they had everything I wanted.
Sidney Royel Selby III
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Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it.
Chris O'Dowd