Declan Donnellan Quotes
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No one expected me to become a champion.
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My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.
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It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.
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I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump.
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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
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Good is not good when better is expected.
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Right now, I'm just shocked by it all, the way that it ended. This is weird all the way around. But that's the way it goes. It just got away from us.
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That should shock and awaken every American. You have to question what's going on here & The government acts as if they're oblivious to this & The entire enterprise is collapsing.
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The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.
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Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do.
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Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
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I was disappointed and in a little bit of shock. I had a really hard time with a couple of jumps in the warm-up and I just couldn't get over it. I definitely didn't think I was going to get any medal at all at the end of the program, so it was a nice surprise.
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Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.
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To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that's a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.
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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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While I'm frustrated at the amount I'm expected to take on in the present, the 1950s woman was frustrated by being excluded - not being allowed to take things on at all.
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I dig my heels in every now and then, and think 'I'm not going to do what's expected or what people think is the right thing.' So I have a little bit of that in my personality.
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History is more interesting than most people think.
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I have always believed that the decision to have an abortion generally should be between a woman, her doctor, her conscience, and her God.
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My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
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Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.
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Our shock that reality is other than expected is weirdly tenacious.
