Declan Donnellan Quotes
For we direct, perform and witness performances every night – theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.
Quotes to Explore
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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Many incredible artists die before they were famous.
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I'll be kicked out before I rust out.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Well, my brother started acting before I did.
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I'd been in love before - I was always in love.
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I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.
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If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.
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I would read a lot about how to be a dad. I had never changed a diaper before we had Birdie.
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Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.
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There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.
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Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.
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Before I discovered moviemaking, I hadn't found anything where I could kind of galvanize or meld all of the things that I wanted to do.
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Change before you have to.
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Before I got into electronic games, I was making table-top games.
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I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it?
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In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.
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In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.
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When the democratic deficit is so enormous, people are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action.
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I think I'm a music fan before anything else.
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The self is not so much linked to its ancestors, it is not so much the product, and merely the product, of all that, but rather, in the strictest sense of the word, the same thing as all that: the strict, direct continuation of it, just as the self aged fifty is the continuation of the self aged forty.
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The language of imagination is the native language of man. It is the language of his excited intellect, of his aroused passions, of his devotion, of all the higher moods and temperaments of his mind.
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Lindemann is cleverly playing with language, rhyme and meter to generate insight in ways that only the best poets really can.
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For we direct, perform and witness performances every night – theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.
