Martin McDonagh Quotes

As a kid, as a poor-ish, working-class kid, even visiting America seemed like an impossible dream. Every time I ever went anywhere in America, it always felt cinematic and dreamlike and like a movie from the '70s or something.

Martin McDonagh

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  Kaley Cuoco
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• If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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• As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.

  

  Taiye Selasi
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• My father is an amazing person.

  

  Mahesh Babu
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• People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.

  

  Zig Ziglar
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• I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
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• One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.

  

  Larry Wilmore
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• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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• It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.

  

  Madison Marlow
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• I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.

  

  Yani Tseng
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  • Fun
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• I don't think anyone wants to look in the mirror and say, 'I'm anti-woman.' They don't see themselves that way, and you can't treat them that way. But you have to tell the truth.

  

  Venus Williams
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• Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
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• Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Me
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• The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.

  

  Sam Elliott
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• I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.

  

  J. Tillman
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• It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.

  

  Patrick Kane
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• Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.

  

  Irving Azoff
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• To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

  

  Ramakrishna
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• I always thought what you wore underneath was as important as what you wear on top.

  

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• I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television's most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options.

  

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• The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
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• I made three movies in 1995 and I was unhappy with all of them: Sleepers, Incognito, and Speed 2.

  

  Jason Patric

• To tell an ally - who is shedding blood next to you - that you can't share information is a crime.

  

  David Warner

• As a kid, as a poor-ish, working-class kid, even visiting America seemed like an impossible dream. Every time I ever went anywhere in America, it always felt cinematic and dreamlike and like a movie from the '70s or something.

  

  Martin McDonagh
  • Time
  • America
  • Movie