Domhnall Gleeson Quotes
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There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.
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What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
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I never wore full-on eyeliner in high school, but I wanted to.
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You want to reach people, but you also want to reach them in the most authentic way. You now have a mass market and an audience that's listening, but they're in love with a song that means absolutely nothing to you.
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Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down.
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I grew up sailing in the North Sea.
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Parents like options when it comes to their children's education. And they respond to quality.
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I could be a vegan in sackcloth and flip-flops, but I find fabulous boots with periwinkle cuffs a far preferable option.
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I don't get the point in a lot of biopics, they're boring. You know what's gonna happen. You're just watching actors show off.
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My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated.
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I like to go with the energy because when you ignore it that's when you start doing things wrong.
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Some of the world's most appalling abuses have been justified by religion because it is possible for people to find vindication in their scriptures for any of their prejudices.
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If George is around, it will.
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It's not to anybody's best interest to think about how they will be perceived tomorrow. It hurts you in the long run.
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The problems of this country are not going to be solved by one actor or even 10 actors. The problems are far too big. On the screen we get poetic justice in three hours. Poetic justice doesn’t come in a lifetime.
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We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it.
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Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.
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All we did was to sit around, collect some ideas, wait and see what's going to happen. That was it.
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You can't expect a child not to become a product of his environment. If you're a drinker, you'll raise a drunk. If you're a single mother, traipsing men in and out of your bedroom in front of your girl child - mark my words, in time she'll claim a corner and charge money for what you gave away for free. Kings and queens raise princes and princesses. That's just the way it is.
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It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
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It used to be that one poet in each generation performed poems in public. In the twenties, it was Vachel Lindsay, who sometimes dropped to his knees in the middle of a poem. Then Robert Frost took over, and made his living largely on the road.
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I write longhand; I make changes longhand, and I have an assistant who types it up. She lives 70 yards away. Every afternoon, I have a case I leave out on the porch, and she brings it back the next morning.
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I like cashew nuts.
