Chris O'Dowd Quotes
I definitely want to keep working in Ireland, and without being too worthy about it, if it's possible to bring work into the country, that's no harm.
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.
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I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.
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I fight fairly, and in good faith.
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Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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I've learned 90 percent of what I know from watching and listening to actors. A good leading actor is the rock of the show. Their energy and their tone really sets the groundwork for how everything is going to work. I've been lucky to deal with stars who are very giving and generous.
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Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
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I hate when a movie just sort of ends and is so open-ended you feel like it wasn't finished. I appreciate leaving things up to the interpretation of the audience and letting them make decisions about where things will go in the future - but the director has to make a decision; otherwise it is sort of a cop-out.
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'If some of the current politicians had been around a few thousand years ago,' she’d said, 'we never would have gotten out of Africa. Boats cost too much.'
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Don't you hate when people are late to work. And they always have the worst excuses. 'Oh, I'm sorry I'm late, traffic.' 'Traffic, huh? How do you think I got here; helicoptered in!?'
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Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.
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I definitely want to keep working in Ireland, and without being too worthy about it, if it's possible to bring work into the country, that's no harm.
