Dermot Mulroney Quotes
You know, what I like about 'The Family Tree' is it's a kitchen sink movie; you can't think of anything that it doesn't either throw into the story for conflict or poke fun at or attack, even, so I like it.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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I've had every hair style imaginable.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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I know I look super young.
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises for themselves.
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I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.
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I don't like the showy nationalism - a tattoo, wrapping yourself in a flag - that doesn't matter to me. The way to show your patriotism and commitment is to go and support or play for your team.
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I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
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I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.
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My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
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If you're going to pretend to be somebody you're not - which is the whole point of being a rock star - then why not just invent fake characters and have them do it all for you?
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Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.
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The underlying part of any comprehensive immigration bill is family unit.
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Of course building a kitchen makes all the symmetric sense in the world because everybody's burning calories at 120 beats a minute. You could even register it on a graph at the DJ booth. "How fast are they burning calories, sir?" "126 a minute." "Are you sure?" "Oh, I'm very sure." You can meter that out.
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You know, what I like about 'The Family Tree' is it's a kitchen sink movie; you can't think of anything that it doesn't either throw into the story for conflict or poke fun at or attack, even, so I like it.
