Dermot Mulroney Quotes
I don't need to prove that I'm some great international filmmaker. It's not really on my list of goals.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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Our mission was to make sure that the bad guys, basically, did not get nuclear weapons.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
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At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
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You can blame my mom for some of my worst fashion moments. She used to dress me and my sister in a lot of patterns. Like, she would put me in striped stockings with a floral dress. Like, why are you doing that to me?
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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I don't like to be me. I'm not so comfortable being me on screen because then I'd be a presenter. I'm not Jimmy Fallon.
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You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
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We Americans can be rightly proud of the fact that the right to the free and unfettered exercise of religion is a primary principle in the vision and founding of our country. It defines us as a people, and has uniquely contributed to making this nation great.
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I think casting is everything. You get a great cast and - certainly, as happens in 'The Hour' - so many of those performances on the page were transformed by those actors who took those parts and made it into something completely different.
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As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.
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It can feel isolating to be a mom. I've been one and felt isolated.
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I don't need to prove that I'm some great international filmmaker. It's not really on my list of goals.
