Brendan Gleeson Quotes
Winston was a bit of a challenge, all right, from a lot of different perspectives. It wasn't just the culture or the class divide or the historical baggage - it was also the age difference. We had to see if I could be aged-up legitimately, without it becoming some sort of hokey acting challenge.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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I don't care about revenues.
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The people I admire unreservedly are my parents. They are the real pioneers of Africa in many ways. They were born and raised in rural Africa during the colonial period. They are the ones who came to the U.S. long before I did.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, 'If you don't get up to feed the horses, you don't get to ride them.' We'd get up.
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My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.
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I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
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A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling – I can so well remember it. There was always something more – behind and beyond everything – to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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My parents gave me a boxer puppy as a present. I have wanted a dog for years and must first give her attention in the morning.
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There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream.
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Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
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The people who run the international tests told us, 'the biggest predictor of student success is choice.' Nations that 'attach the money to the kids' and thereby allow parents to choose between different public and private schools have higher test scores. This should be no surprise; competition makes us better.
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You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
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Winston was a bit of a challenge, all right, from a lot of different perspectives. It wasn't just the culture or the class divide or the historical baggage - it was also the age difference. We had to see if I could be aged-up legitimately, without it becoming some sort of hokey acting challenge.
