Domhnall Gleeson Quotes
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When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.
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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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My mom actually taught fifth grade, so... I'm good with fifth graders. That's, like, my specialty.
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I have always been very comfortable in little clothing; its part of my job.
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He who stops being better stops being good.
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There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.
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When you're a child, you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.
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I know how to stand up for myself. I say no when I want to, yes when I want to, and no one can really change my mind.
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I like a scarf with a shirt; it throws it off a bit.
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Barbara Castle should have been Labour's - and Britain's - first female prime minister. What a role model she would have been: passionate, fiery, and absolutely committed to social justice.
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I planned so well for my post-'Cosby Show' life that I don't have to make desperate acting choices that conflict with what my values.
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Nastia Liukin, I was obsessed with her. And I say was, but really am obsessed with her. She's just so amazing.
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I have decorated soldiers for heroism before, and it was always such an honor to do it.
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City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.
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I've been stalked.
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I started out in the Apollo Theater. That's where I got my start. I won Amateur Night four weeks in a row.
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Early in my publishing career, someone told me I'd need to have five books in print before I could quit my job as a journalist. Turns out it was closer to 10 books. It also turns out that while it's great to see my titles on bookstore shelves, my best customers are schools and libraries.
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Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban.
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While there are corporal descriptions of what the afterlife is like in Christianity, Islam and Judaism, what's going on there is the finite trying to describe the infinite. If God knows everything, started everything and is the only one who knows how it's going to end, how can any human know what God wants?
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Musicians are hungry for new music.
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The way I see it, when I go out as an actor, it should be on a type of film I'm never going to do as a director.
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As a child growing up in refugee camps, life taught me that many things were impossible. My older sister, Claire, taught me otherwise when her strength and resilience made the impossible possible in the way she worked, behaved, and took control of our lives.
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I tend to play 'tortured' a lot, whether it's physically or emotionally.
