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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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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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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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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Where liberty dies, evil grows.
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Onboarding starts with satisfying the most basic of Maslow's psychological needs: belonging. New hires shouldn't arrive to an empty cube and be forced to forage through corridors searching for a computer and the bare necessities of office life. A new hire isn't a surprise visitor from out of town. Plan for their arrival.
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If a person has ten habits out of which nine are good and one bad, that bad one will destroy the good ones.
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I do not want to go back to God with less knowledge than when I was born. I want my footprints to make an impress on the field of reason. I have no desire to be a cat and walk so lightly that it never creates a disturbance. I want my footprints to be plainly seen by all...
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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.
