Brendan Gleeson Quotes
I find myself really privileged to be able to go in and look at a set that the likes of Hollywood can provide, and say, 'My God, look at the craftsmanship in this; look at the ambition in it, the scale of it.'
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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I don't think you should exploit your own pain.
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My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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Expectations in the bond market have been high, thus any disappointment over the auction (particularly with the level of foreign participation) could put the dollar under renewed pressure.
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I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a vein which nature seems to have marked with more or less strength, in the tempers of most men. No matter what the object is, whether business, pleasures or the fine arts: whoever pursues them to any purpose must do so con amore.
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When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover. Because ever since the great tulipmania in 1637, speculation has always been covered by a new paradigm. There was never a paradigm so new and so wonderful as the one that covered John Law and the South Sea Bubble - until the day of disaster.
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My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.
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Only through sheer ambition did I end up playing on Bob Dylan sessions and the fact that I could do that is a testament to how disorganized it really was.
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I find myself really privileged to be able to go in and look at a set that the likes of Hollywood can provide, and say, 'My God, look at the craftsmanship in this; look at the ambition in it, the scale of it.'
