Dylan Moran Quotes
I don't watch a whole lot of stand up. Mainly I prefer to read writers; they make me laugh the most. Something gets you when you're alone and someone's voice is coming through their work. There's a different quality to it that stays with you a bit more.
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I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.
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I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.
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The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
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Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.
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I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.
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If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
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Most of Planned Parenthood's work focuses on health care for low-income women: things like screenings for breast cancer and diabetes, and family planning.
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I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.
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Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.
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Decisions are made by those who show up.
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I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.
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It is important to keep the filmmakers interested in you so they can offer you everything and anything. We actors are not given work on the basis of audience poll; the filmmaker will cast you after they see and like your work. It is essential to do different kind of films and not get typecast.
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When I'm out there, you just have to react. That's why you work on those throws. When you're in the moment, you can't think to yourself, 'How do I get this to go 47 yards and be 2 yards inside the sideline?'
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There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.
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The values of a society totally preoccupied with making money are not altogether reassuring.
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I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'
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Anybody that's intimidated by my success probably isn't the right person for me.
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It's amazing what a spray-on tan will do.
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I don't watch a whole lot of stand up. Mainly I prefer to read writers; they make me laugh the most. Something gets you when you're alone and someone's voice is coming through their work. There's a different quality to it that stays with you a bit more.
