Martin McDonagh Quotes
When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I am a just man.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Dying in the sanitary environment of a hospital is a relatively new concept. In the late 19th century, dying at a hospital was reserved for people who had nothing and no one. Given the choice, a person wanted to die at home in their bed, surrounded by friends and family.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.
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Technique conquers all.
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At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples.
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The best live among us in disguise.
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I was doing a lot of drama until I took the comedy role in the series 'Car 54, Where Are You?,' and I've been tagged as a comedian ever since.
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In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you're a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that's so lame.
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When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.
