Martin McDonagh Quotes
All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.Martin McDonagh
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
Hannibal Buress -
I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
Feist -
Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
Campbell Scott -
In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
Zadie Smith -
France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
Xavier Niel
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
Rachel Dratch -
You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
Nate Berkus -
He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
Walter Lippmann -
Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.
Zig Ziglar -
Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
Aaron Klug -
I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
Hannah Simone
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
Rachel Kushner -
Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
Garrett Hardin -
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
Barry Goldwater -
I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
Earl Scruggs -
It's so easy to look foolish online.
M. J. Rose
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I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.
Jack Davenport -
When I was young, I was obsessed with Michael Jordan and the Bulls. He's the only person I get starstruck over. I don't know what I'd do if I met him - I'd be in shock! That's my dream.
Elena Delle Donne -
The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.
Jim Lehrer -
The only thing scarier than Godzilla is Godzilla's lawyers.
Paul Watson -
I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.
John Joseph Lydon -
All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.
Martin McDonagh