Martin McDonagh Quotes
Plays were really my last option. The reason I didn't write plays initially was because I thought theatre was the worst of all the art forms.
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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I do not remember exactly when I became interested in astronomy, but I know it was at a very young age. I did organize an astronomy club for my friends at the age of 11. We would meet once a week to learn about the constellations.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.
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It's something that I do every year - every Ramadan to be exact - taking an 18-hour flight back home to Malaysia from Los Angeles. I'm born and raised in Malaysia, and Ramadan and Eid has always been my favorite time of the year.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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We do take pride in how we look, but it's really just like, take a couple minutes, and you're ready to go.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.
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We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
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When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.
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It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.
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Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.
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Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
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He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual.
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In contemporary art or movies, it makes perfect sense to be focused on the bleeding edge, on the new idea that's never been previously contemplated. But when we're discussing our goals, our passion and the way we interact with the culture, it seems to me that what works is significantly more important than what's new.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.
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Plays were really my last option. The reason I didn't write plays initially was because I thought theatre was the worst of all the art forms.
