Dylan Moran Quotes

One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing.

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• Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.

  

  P. L. Travers
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• 'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Home

• For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.

  

  Gary Bauer
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  • Believe
  • Faith

• I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed.

  

  Aaron Neville
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• There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
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• Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.

  

  Saint Augustine
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• Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
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• I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.

  

  Paige VanZant
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• When I was little I had this notion of being a marine biologist. I grew up by the ocean so I was always in the water but realistically, I don't think I would make the best marine biologist.

  

  Victoria Justice
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• Whenever I go to L.A., the make-up artist or hairdresser will end up having a conversation about how fat they think they are, and I really just can't take it seriously at all.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• I'm always surprised when actors say they don't like sex scenes. It's like a freebie. It's fun to make out with someone. So yes, thumbs up on that.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
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• If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?

  

  Randy Quaid
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• My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
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• I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.

  

  Samuel Larsen
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• Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.

  

  A. R. Rahman
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• There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
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  • Courage

• Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.

  

  Damien Rice
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  • Music
  • Growing

• I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well – spent.

  

  Garry Trudeau
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• One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.

  

  Valerie June
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• In my house, education was the paramount value. And if you grew up in a neighborhood like mine, you were forced to decide early on what you stood for in life, because there were a lot of peer pressures that could take you the wrong way.

  

  Kenneth Frazier
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• I'm beginning to see that just knowing the piece is not enough. Having a clear technique is not enough. Having a broad repertory is not enough. I want desperately to get past all those things.

  

  Leonard Slatkin
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• I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost.

  

  Jenny Agutter
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• Sometimes, you're going 24 hours a day, seven days a week for a few months, and then you come home, and you wonder what you're doing with your life and why. At least, that's the experience I've had.

  

  Verite
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• One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing.

  

  Dylan Moran
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