Doing Quotes
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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There's nothing wrong with doing sequels, they're just easier to sell.
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But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.
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I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.
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I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
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I started out doing musicals.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
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I never understood the realism of an imaginary circumstance. While I was doing 'Smoke Signals,' I relied on my instinct and what I grew up with. I had this energy, but it was a one-dimensional thing.
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It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
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If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we're doing will not be attractive.
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Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.
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I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.
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I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
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I must say to you that my intensions for instance doing German, it is because Victoria de los Angeles is nothing to do with wanting to be like a German singer.
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I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.
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You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently - and I think that is what is going to make the difference.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable of doing.
