Sean Durkin Quotes
What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.
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I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that's off stage. People know when it's fake.
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Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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Sleep is the best meditation.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.
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As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.
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The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
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For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.
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Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?
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Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.
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Forget your opponents; always play against par.
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I think Sharon is anti-Israeli because it's in the interest of Israel to understand the problems of the other side.
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I think because I did a lot of modelling and appeared in lads mags a lot of women didn't necessarily warm to me. But now I have been through childbirth, post-natal depression and struggled with my weight, women seem to relate to me a lot more.
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It's true that PSG have the ambition to win the Champions League, so they could be interesting for a player like me.
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I have an affinity for comedy because I like to watch them. It's an honor to make comedies because I love being able to pop something into the DVD player and laugh. I love doing it.
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I will give 100 per cent and play with my life in every game. That's one of my main features as a player.
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What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.
