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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There is no direct evidence that [Alex] Haley sat down with the F.B.I.
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I'm not sure if I want to direct a film, but certainly, as an actress, I'm always thinking, 'Surely this must be my last film.'
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'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.
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Overall when you work in fashion, you're always in a rush. You're always a little late, always in a hurry. Every single moment's important, so you never have enough time to do what you want to do. It's ridiculous.
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I just always loved to perform and I was lucky enough to be in front of the right people at the right time!
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For we direct, perform and witness performances every night – theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.
