Martin McDonagh Quotes
There's no point in me meeting with a bunch of producers or studios, because I'll write my own scripts in my own time.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
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I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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One of the trickiest things about 'Game of Thrones' is just seeding those first couple of episodes with that basic information that people need to know, both about the world and the ground rules of the world, and the relationships between the characters, as far as who means what to whom and why.
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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I want tragic and poetic forever! That's how I want to live every day.
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Vera Caspary wrote thrillers - but not like any other author of her time, male or female. Her specialty was a specific type that she pioneered - the psycho thriller.
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
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I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!
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I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy.
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I tend to fall more into the fun horror genre than the traumatic horror genre. I love the films where you're laughing as much as screaming, but that doesn't mean I don't like the other ones.
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And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.
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Fossil fuels will run out not because of limited resources but because of the environmental impact. If I can solve that impact, I have basically increased the resource base by a vast amount.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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There's no point in me meeting with a bunch of producers or studios, because I'll write my own scripts in my own time.
