William Monahan Quotes
I'm a homebody, as many writers are, and need to be by myself, and I like to be by the Atlantic Ocean.
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The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.
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Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
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I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
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I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.
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Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.
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Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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I grew up in the Seattle suburbs - the suburbs of suburbs. Where I'm from, it's super quiet, just woods and nothing.
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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Apart from my heart, I feel everything grows old in me. Even my heart has something artificial. It has been sewn by the dancers in a soft, pink satin purse like their shoes.
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Good-night; ensured release,Imperishable peace,Have these for yours,While sea abides, and land,And earth's foundations stand,And heaven endures.
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Yes, the strong gets more While the weak ones fade Empty pockets don't ever make the grade Mama may have, Papa may have But God bless the child that's got his own That's got his own.
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I figured he'd be like a genius, because he is. He’s very, very subtle and nuanced. It’s very much in the eyes. That’s how it is in real life. He’s such a great actor. I was just amazed that I got the chance to work with him.
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You never compromise with violence. You never compromise with intimidation. You never compromise by those who want to use those to extinguish freedom and democracy, because if you do then the very things for which you stand are extinguished.
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I want my world to be fun. No parents, no rules, no nothing. Like, no one can stop me. No one can stop me.
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We're all part of humanity. And maybe there's something about the worst people, with the most destructive, warped minds, that is just an acceleration of something that is in quite a few of us.
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Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It's harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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There’s something very freeing about losing the anchors that have always defined you. Frightening, sad, but exhilarating in a poignant way, as well. You’re free to float to the moon and evaporate or sink to the bottom of the deepest ocean. But you’re free to explore. Some people confuse that with drifting, I suppose. I like to think of it as growing.
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I'm a homebody, as many writers are, and need to be by myself, and I like to be by the Atlantic Ocean.
