Dylan Moran Quotes
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I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
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A cat is never vulgar.
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It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.
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A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.
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Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, that's when you results started to come. I was no different driver. I was certainly learning every time I went in the car.
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Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. If this trend continues, truly catastrophic consequences are likely to ensue from rising sea levels, to reduced water availability, to more heat waves and fires.
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Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.
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I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager. I really lucked into it!
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I think tripe is maligned. It's wonderful stuff, but everyone goes 'urgh.' You have to wash and then cook it, very gently braise it, for eight hours. It uplifts you but steadies you at the same time.
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I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.
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In Italy, it is difficult to see a film in the original language because the voice actors here are a mafia.
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Offers come all the time, but I'm pretty particular. I really have to be wowed by a character I encounter in a script, or a storyline. I really do need to feel inspiration, otherwise I'm just happy planting perennials and making goat cheese.
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I am reverential to great stars. I don't want sexual congress with them. The writer in me reveres the artist in them.
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There was one picture in particular which bothered him. It had begun with a leaf caught in the wind, and it became a tree; and the tree grew, sending out innumerable branches, and thrusting out the most fantastic roots.
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I've never finished anything by Dickens.
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We should all be involved in the avant-garde as long as we look toward the past.
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Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?
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Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect.
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Do your own thing. Speak in your voice.
