Dylan Moran Quotes
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.
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A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
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I understood from an early age what being competitive means.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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Japan needs the American market and it also needs American security protection. Japan also needs America as the necessary stabilizer of an orderly world system with economies truly open to international trade.
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I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.
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I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.
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Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.
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I'm amazed if people are happy in their own skin.
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It's important to seize any opportunity one has to speak to their elected representatives, no matter the situation.
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What's appropriate in America anymore?
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One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in the 1960s, put me onto Jorge Luis Borges, and I remember another mentioning Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two-Birds in the same way.
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I think the idea of losing your hair is still very potent, emotional thing.
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Bagpipes covered in hair
