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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When I got on stage, I felt this bolt of electricity hit me, and it was this shock of, 'This is exactly what I'm supposed to do with my life.'
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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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It was a performance that had been coming for a while and it does not shock me all that much. When the pressure came on we produced the goods and we can take great satisfaction from that.
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I kinda expected to turn the bottle and see a recipe. "So that's how you make ice cubes. Apparently you just freeze this stuff. Oh, but you need a tray. That's how they trick you into it."
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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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If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign.
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Nobody expected me to win Wimbledon. It was something to strive for.
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My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house.
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Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery?
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Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it
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Our shock that reality is other than expected is weirdly tenacious.
