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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Do anything better than it was ever done before and youll get rich.
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The next 8 years were spent working in New Haven for Health Systems International, which was lots of fun, but that's another story.
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The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.
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I put the ball in play. That's what I want.
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Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.
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For we direct, perform and witness performances every night – theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.
