Larry Mullen, Jr. Quotes
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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I love my sleep.
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I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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Friends are not made, but recognized.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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It would have been tough for anyone to adapt 'Push' - an amazing but wrenching novel by Sapphire - for the screen, and I think director Lee Daniels made interesting choices, particularly with Precious' fantasies. In my view, some of them work and some do not, but they are definitely provocative directorial choices.
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Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems.
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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Everyone else in the 'iCarly' cast can operate on 5 hours of sleep, but not so for 'Old Man Nathan!'
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It's about not going to the well all the time. The body has limits. The mind has limits, too.
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I was in Cannes two years ago at our 'U23D' movie premiere. I love the French.
