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's very important to give back to the community and do anything you can.
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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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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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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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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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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 really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
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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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I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.
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Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of the Stratigraphical Record."
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It's insulting when somebody who is not a member of our community feels like they have a great understanding of what it's like to grow up gay in this country.
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Frank Sinatra was a great singer, but my favourite is Sammy Davis Jr. He had incredible versatility in his voice, often doing impressions of people. It's always going to be classic, and you'll never get bored listening.
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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
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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.
