Brendan Gleeson Quotes
I hope I'm worthy in my dying. I hope I can maintain myself - that I wouldn't become pathetic and needy, and the worst part of myself come out in adversity. But I'm not afraid of it. It'd be such a silly thing to do! To ruin the life you have by fearing its ending.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.
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Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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O Allah,
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I think maybe Mr. Sinise and Mr. Bacon have slightly bigger egos than I do.
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If he can't do it with Ferrari, well, he can't do it.
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Life is confusing. We're all just trying to get on with it, that's all.
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Grew up in church but at 12 it just became real to me to where i fully understood all Gods done for me and me wanting to live my life for him.
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I hope I'm worthy in my dying. I hope I can maintain myself - that I wouldn't become pathetic and needy, and the worst part of myself come out in adversity. But I'm not afraid of it. It'd be such a silly thing to do! To ruin the life you have by fearing its ending.
