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.
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I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
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California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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My father is an amazing person.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
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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.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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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.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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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.
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No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.
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Obesity is awesome from a Wall Street perspective. It's not just one disease - there are all sorts of related diseases to profit from.
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My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.
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We're going to live longer than our parents' generation, and there comes a point when you ask yourself, 'What am I going do?' You can only play so much golf.
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We want to make sure that our boys realize that there are all different kinds of families, and all families are great.
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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.
