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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My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
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Obamacare was passed months before my first day at Komen.
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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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I don't think too much about the past when I am actually playing, I prefer to concentrate on the present. The performance of a piece, no matter how long ago or where it was written, is always a new production, something that comes alive in the present. And it doesn't matter if the piece was written two or three hundred years ago if it is alive in us.
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You can be very honest and direct with people, respectfully. I never do anything maliciously; I simply give my honest opinion.
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Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve you have to win the war in your thinking first.
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I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.
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For we direct, perform and witness performances every night – theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.
