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.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Win
  • Shopping
  • Election

• It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • History
  • Dream
  • Always

• If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Work
  • Living
  • Restaurant

• I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Love
  • Character

• 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.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Doing
  • Hatred

• Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Something
  • Selling
  • Clients

• 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.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Realize
  • Secrets
  • Hidden

• 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.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • You
  • Die
  • Find

• I grew up in the Seattle suburbs - the suburbs of suburbs. Where I'm from, it's super quiet, just woods and nothing.

  

  Yoon Ahn
  • Up
  • Quiet
  • Woods

• When I was in the 12th grade, I got my girlfriend pregnant. I just got out of school, she was a 10th-grader. I'm a teen parent, and I'm at a point where I'm like, 'Man I've got to do something.'

  

  Ice T
  • School
  • She
  • Man

• To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Thinking

• 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.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Heart
  • Shoes
  • Pink

• Good-night; ensured release,Imperishable peace,Have these for yours,While sea abides, and land,And earth's foundations stand,And heaven endures.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Good
  • Night
  • Earth

• 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.

  

  Eleanora Fagan
  • God
  • May
  • Strong

• 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.

  

  Alison Lohman
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• 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.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Violence

• Proof' is going to be, in many ways, a mystery. It's not a procedural in any way. It's not a medical drama. It really is about trying to investigate whether or not there's life after death.

  

  Joe Morton
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Death

• I never feel like I've been pushed towards a certain thing, but now, at 26, I do feel like I have integrity over my output, you know? There's a fine line between saying, 'You can't tell me what I can and can't do,' and taking on board people's opinions.

  

  Cassie
  • Feel
  • Integrity
  • Pushed

• I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Ocean
  • Grateful

• I'm a homebody, as many writers are, and need to be by myself, and I like to be by the Atlantic Ocean.

  

  William Monahan
  • Ocean
  • Atlantic
  • Homebodies