Martin McDonagh Quotes

'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.

Martin McDonagh

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Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

John F. Kennedy

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The great esteem in which the Nobel prizes are universally held is due to the fact that for several generations they have been given purely on scientific merit and not through lobbying and politicking. I do hope that it will stay this way, and the prizes will never be given according to the number of votes in live TV contests!

Andre Geim

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Though it might be invidious to mention individuals, yet I may be allowed to say how much I owe to the constant help of my wife, not quite my first, but much my most consistent collaborator, and over the longest period of years.

Robert Robinson

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There's a wonderful adage in acting that you're stuck with the character, but the character is also stuck with you.

Jeffrey Tambor

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In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In American culture, kids in books, TV shows and movies constantly score points with their snappy back talk. Typically, it's the parents who need to be taught a life lesson - by their children.

Amy Chua

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It's not in the tradition: not even the schoolkids have hot lunches in Norway. They bring a couple of sandwiches from home.

Stellan Skarsgard

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Sparky Anderson

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That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is.

Steven Berkoff

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This is the law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control.

Rufus King

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I've always been interested in giving the audience a first-person experience in my movies.

Doug Liman

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There are not that many new media brands you can say that about nowadays.

David Talbot

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Major labels have always been around our band since the beginning, and we just waited. We knew we had to do some things, and we needed to grow as a band before we made that step. We needed to do it our way and not do it how it works for other people.

Brian Fallon

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