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.
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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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I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
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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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You feel it in there, pacing your heart sometimes, and it has what's called a defibrillator. Should I suffer that arhythmia, it's generally sudden death. And the paddles that are internal shock you back and restore your rhythm to its normal and natural state.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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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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Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.
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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 like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
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Look at electricity in human history - it took a few decades for electricity to really revolutionize the American economy. And the Internet will be the same. At some point in the future, we will arrive at a new era of low-hanging fruit.
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You can't make movies without known names, and unknowns can't become known, because they can't get work.
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I think you have to have a bit of an anger-management issue, to be honest with you. Usually, slot guys are a lot smaller and quicker, but at the same time, you have to go in there and block linebackers and safeties, and so you have to be aggressive.
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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.
