Chris O'Dowd Quotes
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.
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I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.
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Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life.
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There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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I love the Cannes Film Festival. From the lavish parties and events to the red carpet attire, this star-studded week-long event is where I get a lot of inspiration for hair and fashion.
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I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.
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I believe that Obamacare is bad for America.
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The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.
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Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.
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I grew up thinking that singing was my security.
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I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.
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People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone!
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If it's boring, then it's tiring.
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I feel like I have to move violently once a day, or I'll lose my mind.
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If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a kidney disease, I wouldn't have won a world championship.
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That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in our own day this principle is universally neglected. The best laws, though sanctioned by every citizen of the state, will be of no avail unless the young are trained by habit and education in the spirit of the constitution.
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You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.
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The fame thing has happened very gradually, so I've been kind of lucky.
