Brendan Gleeson Quotes
When I started out at about 19, 20, it took me two years just to tell the difference between a jig and a reel. It does all sound the same, but what you can find once you go in - it's never-ending. So that's my love.
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I have played cricket on my own terms.
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I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
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Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.
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I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.
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Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.
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My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
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I love being a writer. I don't really want to do anything else!
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Everything I ask is a question from Tamron, like it or not. My team does not write my questions. We put together a segment. We talk about the elements that I want, but we have a conversation for that hour with our guests.
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There are thousands of ways to make people laugh - satire, black comedy, slapstick.
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Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.
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Of the web It's massively successful. It is trivially simple. Massively successful like karaoke - anybody can do it.
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Undoubtedly many more people in the world are concerned with sports than with human rights.
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Ah've never felt anything about countries, other than total disgust. They should fuckin abolish the lot of them. Kill every fuckin parasite politician that ever mouthed lies and fascist platitudes in a shell-suit and a smarmy smile.
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No prisoner's dilemma here. Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge.
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Apolo is going to have to keep skating so he can add more gold to his entourage.
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The human voice: mysterious, spontaneous, primal. For me, the human voice is the vessel on which all emotions travel - except perhaps jealousy. And the breath, the breath is the captain of that vessel.
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We intend to do peaceful, non-violent disobedience because that's what is covered (by the media), ... If it takes that, we'll do it.
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I don't just want to sing about simplistic things all the time. It's good to have a mix of songs that have a real depth, and that provoke and challenge people, and then songs that are fun and people can enjoy.
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There's so many things that can go wrong in the execution of a project like a television show or a movie, so many little elements, any number of things, all the way to marketing - like they could market it poorly and nobody finds it and down it goes.
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Yeah, I might remaster it, in fact I'm sure I would. But all the songs will be the same.
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When I started out at about 19, 20, it took me two years just to tell the difference between a jig and a reel. It does all sound the same, but what you can find once you go in - it's never-ending. So that's my love.
