Martin McDonagh Quotes
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I'm not that ambitious chick. I'm not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I've just never been that girl. I've always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he's already blessed me with a lot.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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There's a puppy store near where I live. They know me by name in there because I go so often.
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I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling.
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I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.
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I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.
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I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
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If you have life's experiences with you, nothing can stop you from being a competent actor.
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'I fly from pleasure,' said the prince, 'because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others.'
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'Man,' said Terl, 'is an endangered species.'
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If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help.
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That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
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Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow.
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Akira Kurosawa as quoted in Kamiski, Michael (2007). The Secret History of Star Wars(PDF). p. 48. Retrieved 2011-01-31.
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There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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Listening to people keeps them entertained.
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Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason.
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Love was the bedrock of Jesus' life, the very reason He came to seek and save the lost.
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I've always considered myself something of a musical rebel.
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My first college internship was at Sony Pictures Entertainment in Los Angeles. My second internship was at McKinsey & Company as a consultant - that turned into my first job after graduation.
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I've got a fondness for rabbits.
