Dylan Moran Quotes
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I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
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When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.
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To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.
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The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.
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My problem in calling for pressures on South Africa is to convince the youth to convince their governments and people that it is not the South African goods that are cheap, but the forced labor of the Africans.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
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You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.
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Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.
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If I don't go to the gym for a week, I just get thinner and thinner.
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It's a basic tenet you learn at drama school. If you're playing someone evil, you can't make an objective moral judgment. You've got to get inside the character and empathize as much as possible.
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I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.
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My father is a Jehovah's Witness, and he raised us under a very strict hand.
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Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
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Life with another person is always difficult.
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Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he meant by this was that he was worried that one day someone would fall on Ronan and cut themselves.
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Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.
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To be against something or someone, it's a dangerous thing.
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One of my gripes about movies is that people take them so seriously, and the moneymaking aspects are so brutal.
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Nobody can hear you read music.
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I'm organised in some ways, but not in others.
