Martin McDonagh Quotes
'Beauty Queen' will always be a favourite because I think it's a really tight play, and when it's done right, there is a sadness to it that I love.

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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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If I ever had needed to put together a CV, it would be quite short. Like many young people, I'd highlight my desire to work hard.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
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There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.
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The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.
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I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.
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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
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If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
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People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.
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Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.
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All I've ever really done is page 3 in The Sun, and not every man reads that.
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Little things in my past that I really thought were over and done with were still elements of the puzzle that weren't pieced together, and so she helped me do that.
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Once you've done the mental work, there comes a point you have to throw yourself into the action and put your heart on the line. That means not only being brave, but being compassionate towards yourself, your teammates and your opponents.
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While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.
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'Beauty Queen' will always be a favourite because I think it's a really tight play, and when it's done right, there is a sadness to it that I love.