Dominic Monaghan Quotes
I've worked on films where the budgets are almost limitless and you're in trailers that are bigger than a hotel room. You're taken care of and the food is amazing, the quality of the job is amazing and then you work on smaller things but it never dictates my happiness or my willingness to go to work.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.
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God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
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Our communities are being destroyed by racial tension - and we're too polite to talk about it.
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If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.
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Hunger and self-control do not go hand in hand.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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In all honesty, my favorite place to write is an anonymous, cheap hotel in a city or town where nobody knows me, the wireless service is spotty, and the adjoining gas station has coffee, beer and junk food.
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People say, 'Well, why don't they get another job, why don't they pick themselves up by their bootstraps?' Well, the people that say that probably have the kind of jobs where they don't work that hard, so maybe they could have another job.
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I've worked on films where the budgets are almost limitless and you're in trailers that are bigger than a hotel room. You're taken care of and the food is amazing, the quality of the job is amazing and then you work on smaller things but it never dictates my happiness or my willingness to go to work.
