Domhnall Gleeson Quotes

Most of the time, I do what I'm offered, but after I worked for it. I think I try much harder for the things that scare me and inspire me. The things that scare and inspire you are things that are different from what you did before.

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• I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

  

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• I definitely try to eat a healthy diet, but I am the first person to say I love unhealthy food. I would never tell you I don't. I love fried chicken or mac and cheese. Do I order them all the time when I'm out at restaurants? No, though I do have one splurge meal a week.

  

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• I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

  

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• Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.

  

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• Most actors can't make any kind of living.

  

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• I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.

  

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• I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.

  

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• Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

  

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• I have had that same experience where there are several people who have come up in my life at the right time and have made critical contributions to how I see the world and how I see myself.

  

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• Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

  

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• I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.

  

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• Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

  

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• I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.

  

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• American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'

  

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• People get so trapped by their technology now. Real life is so much better. I love talking with my mother and father. We really enjoy staying in and making a meal together. I'm very close with all four of my older sisters as well.

  

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• Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

  

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• I have my hopes, & very distinct ones, too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations: in short, a law or laws for the mutual actions of the molecules of the brain (equivalent to the law of gravitation for the planetary & sideral world).

  

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• I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time.

  

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• When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.

  

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• I spoke English at school and Spanish at home, and I'm always eating Dominican food, listening to Dominican music.

  

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• My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.

  

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• There are new rumors about me every day.

  

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• Most of the time, I do what I'm offered, but after I worked for it. I think I try much harder for the things that scare me and inspire me. The things that scare and inspire you are things that are different from what you did before.

  

  Domhnall Gleeson
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