Declan Donnellan Quotes
Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival... It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.'
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I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
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Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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I've become very, very liberal as far as war is concerned. It's just too terrible. I've been to wars and I've seen what happens. I know what it is to be hurt, and it's nothing compared to these guys. To be blind for the rest of your life. To have prosthetic limbs.
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Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
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If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions.
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You always learn something from mistakes.
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Successful entrepreneurship takes complete dedication and careful strategizing along with market analysis. Plus, successful startups provide countless benefits to a healthy economy and consumers in need.
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In cartoons and in improv, anything can happen. You can be any character you want. The rules of real life don't always apply.
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Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce.
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I didn't do well at school, and I don't have lots of academic reference points.
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This house I grew up in was built in the 1800s, and the back yard was like a cemetery. Naturally, I grew up in an environment where ghosts and supernatural things were very unnerving to me, because my brothers and I dealt with it on a daily basis.
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I think actors always find the dialogue doesn't quite fit, so you always have to play with it.
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I've always found a way to make my way, and now I've had the fortune of being hired by a great company - Chrysler Corporation - one of the original Big Three.
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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival... It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.'
