Domhnall Gleeson Quotes
My mum and my dad have really good taste in movies. My gran would tape them off the TV and write notes about them, rating them.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!
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We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
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There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.
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We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
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What's in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship.
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I'd never make something pointless that I don't believe in. I don't think I could do it.
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If you're a commodity corn farmer in Iowa, you're locked into an infrastructure that keeps you a commodity corn farmer.
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Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!
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If my career isn't going that well, I'd rather it flounder than desperately trying to show up on red carpets: 'I'm for hire! Remember me!'
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My mum and my dad have really good taste in movies. My gran would tape them off the TV and write notes about them, rating them.
