Chris O'Dowd Quotes
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
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I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
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My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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I actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.
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Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
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I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.
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I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.
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Maybe it was escapism, but I had become obsessed with going to remote locations and keeping myself behind the camera.
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What happens traditionally in a campaign is they will go out to their list once or twice a week to raise money from their fund-raisers, but when a candidate gets to a general election, you get some donor fatigue because they've already maxed out their campaign to give.
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Strike them and strike evil so that evil will be defeated.
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I'm more like a spoon symbol. I think women just want to spoon me.
