Martin McDonagh Quotes
I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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But with two boys and a new puppy, we don't get out much. We're usually home doing stuff together as a family, like watching 'Modern Family.'
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One of my favorite places is Seattle. Growing up, I never thought I'd be able to go to Seattle. I grew up in eastern South Carolina, so that's as far as you can get from Seattle, unless I lived in Miami.
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I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think when we appeared to be grasping for too much at one time instead of identifying our priorities in a much more responsible fashion.
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I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.
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I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
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In my work, I want to convince people that I'm that character. If they know everything about Lesley Manville - private life, all of that stuff - it doesn't help. So the kind of anonymity I enjoy is key.
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I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.
