Martin McDonagh Quotes
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The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.
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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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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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I love being a part of something so many people can relate to and enjoy.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.
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People always ask, 'Do you wanna do movies; do you wanna do other things?' But they haven't fired me from 'OLTL' yet. When that happens, I'll make that choice.
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When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
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I believe in the stability of my country. I believe in unity.
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I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual florescence. They are also a vast root system growing down into ideas and understandings. Almost unbidden, they tap into the history and evolution of art and language.
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In every country I visit, I am proud to present Jasmine and what we are doing here. I am in no doubt that we will soon be called upon to teach others the model we have been developing for the past decade, for the promotion of women-owned businesses.
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My managers understood that when I sulk, they talk to me. It's a way for me to be heard.
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Anonymous comments? You're not in the arena, man. If you can't say it to me in person in front of my kids, don't say it.
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Like many American millennials, an 8th grade field trip first brought me into contact with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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I love being an advocate for women as we get older so that we can feel comfortable with ourselves. It's all about being healthy for me now.
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I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.
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As always, things happen sooner rather than later on 'Arrow.'
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At some point, you're just happy to be a working actor, but to be able to do it with people you really love and enjoy spending time with, it's just such a rare thing. You hear so many horror stories.
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But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough.
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I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.
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A Little Treasury of Modern Poetry is a standard Oscar Williams production... ...the book has the merit of containing a considerably larger selection of Oscar Williams’s poems than I have seen in any other anthology. There are nine of his poems - and five of Hardy’s. It takes a lot of courage to like your own poetry almost twice as well as Hardy’s.
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It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.
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There is no secret. It is all about doing the same things time and time again. It is all about doing the best every day.
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My usual trick with the Irish plays is to set things on islands I've never been to.
