Brendan Gleeson Quotes
Actors will always tell you it's more fun playing bad guys. A lot of the time, it's criminals who are the people who don't care. There's something extraordinarily seductive about the guy who doesn't care, and to play that guy is terribly empowering, because you don't have to worry about the consequences of your actions.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.
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Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.
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Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.
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I try to make my fans happy by working hard in every film of mine, and I give my films everything I've got.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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We don't worry about the integrity of our game. I'm more focused on the atmosphere in the arena, and that's something we're comfortable with going forward.
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I think that the S.E.C. has been pretty feckless when it comes to reigning in reckless behavior on Wall Street.
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It's always difficult to define what jazz is or what jazz isn't. To me, the only definition that I can think of is it's music where a lot of different elements are played at the same time. The harmonic, the melodic... You're pushing the boundaries on every level. That could be true of rhythm and blues as well. I'm a musician.
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What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks.
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Every time I am stuck in traffic, stub my toe, get a middle seat on the flight, I just remember how all of this is just a blip in the radar of my life.
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It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.
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Actors will always tell you it's more fun playing bad guys. A lot of the time, it's criminals who are the people who don't care. There's something extraordinarily seductive about the guy who doesn't care, and to play that guy is terribly empowering, because you don't have to worry about the consequences of your actions.
