Cillian Murphy Quotes
There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that.
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We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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I'm mostly vegetarian.
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.
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We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
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Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
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'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have done 'Luke Cage' if they hadn't made time for 'Moonlight.'
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.
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People love things about Hollywood. People love to see the inside of what's going on.
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I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire.
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I think if you're young and you're being compared with a successful family member, it's really hard to maintain any sense of self-worth and credibility.
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Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don't know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
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That's what I love about sketch comedy: a sketch is five minutes, then it goes dark, and there's the potential for something else.
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I love comedy. I don't think there's enough comedy on stage.
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Comedy is great; you get to laugh! Life is so serious.
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There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that.
