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Martin McDonagh Quotes

When I heard the Pogues, I connected with the songs immediately, but it was also the first time I didn't reject out of hand the kind of music that my parents had always tried to push on to us when we were growing up.

Martin McDonagh

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: british
Birth: March 26, 1970

Topics

Music Time Parents Growing Up Push

'Communication Breakdown' - it was punchy and direct, with a real attitude that was different to other bands going around.

Jimmy Page

Communication Attitude Real Going

I don't think that I've ever been a backup.

Joe Namath

Think Backup Been Ever

Ah, Scotland. I am three-parts Scottish and terribly proud of it, although maybe we should divide it into eighths, because my two-eighths are Danish and English, the Lumley part. But the bulk of the rest of me is Scottish - and Scottish ministers especially.

Joanna Lumley

I Am Me Rest Proud English Divide

I don't dream about the perfect script, though I check my mailbox every morning.

John Candy

Morning Perfect Dream Check Every

Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.

Jeff Buckley

Music Alone Time Child Being Alone

'The 100' has such ferociously passionate fans.

Alycia Debnam-Carey

Passionate Fans Ferociously

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

Sigmund Freud

Mirror Doctor Nothing Him Show Like

The fallacy in the progressive critique is the egalitarian dogma that no one should get more than what liberals deem is a 'fair' reward, nor should there be any risk to anyone to fail.

Robert Agostinelli

Reward Risk More Fair Fail Get

I'm very fond of Tennessee Williams' plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in the late 1970s, we saw 'A Street Car Named Desire.'

Ruth Rendell

Car Husband Late New Desire Street

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

Joyce Meyer

Time Devil Problem Party Real Used

Ideals are the world's masters.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

World Brainy Masters Ideals

I think Sweden is known for people being a bit more quiet than other cultures, and I guess it's a mixture: shyness and leaving room for other people to talk. Of course, when people get drunk, all of that disappears.

Jose Gonzalez

People Think Drunk Quiet Leaving