Martin Naughton Quotes
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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I love being a part of something so many people can relate to and enjoy.
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I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.
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When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
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When everyone is telling you, 'You're so beautiful, there's nobody like you,' you begin to think it's true. But of course there is nobody like you.
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I believe in the stability of my country. I believe in unity.
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You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from.
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The NCI scientific programme leaders meet regularly to ensure that we are not ignoring highly original proposals and that we are not creating an unbalanced grant portfolio.
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After about twenty issues of Josie, they decided to pay me.
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In every country I visit, I am proud to present Jasmine and what we are doing here. I am in no doubt that we will soon be called upon to teach others the model we have been developing for the past decade, for the promotion of women-owned businesses.
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Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
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Drugs: 'There’s no way to keep them from getting in. Anyone who wants drugs can get them. We make arrests where we can, and so what? Me, I’m betting on Darwin.''How do you mean?''The next generation won’t use drugs because they’ll be descended from people who had better sense.'
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When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness.
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My managers understood that when I sulk, they talk to me. It's a way for me to be heard.
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Anonymous comments? You're not in the arena, man. If you can't say it to me in person in front of my kids, don't say it.
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I think Donald Trump is a racist.
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You have to be the one setting your own goals, trying to achieve those goals.
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When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.'
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H. L Mencken's Dictionary of the American Language supplies a long list of slang terms for being drunk, but the Irish are no slouches, either. They're spannered, rat-arsed, cabbaged, and hammered; ruined, legless, scorched, and blottoed; or simply trolleyed or sloshed. In Kerry, you're said to be flamin'; in Waterford, you're in the horrors; and in Cavan, you've gone baloobas, a tough one to wrap your tongue around if you ARE baloobas. In Donegal, you're steamin', while the afflicted in Limerick are out of their tree.
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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Being Irish means you belong to the clan. It's what you feel. They feel Irish.
