Martin McDonagh Quotes
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When I was drafted to Smackdown, I was like, 'Hell yes, I'm going to captain this ship.' Then I was like, 'Oh, wait, you're losing your best friend and travel partner and the person you enjoy having matches with the absolute most.' That's Charlotte. We travel together, and she is my best friend.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
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I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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I don't let anything kill my spirit.
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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 love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
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You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
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In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded.
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After '45, Ben Gurion started to organize the Zionist movement and the conference in Baltimore. At this convention, they decided that the helm of the Zionist movement has to be a Jewish commonwealth... a Jewish commonwealth!
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How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!
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I can't stand up in front of people. It just fills me with horror.
