Martin McDonagh Quotes

I probably haven't had enough gay characters in my stuff. When you're writing something, you're thinking, 'Why couldn't this person be black, white, gay?'

Martin McDonagh

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There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

Jim Mattis

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My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.

Jo Brand

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I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you.

Jennifer Weiner

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The reader knows the writer better than he knows himself; but the writer's physical presence is light from a star that has moved on.

John Updike

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I'm one of those girls that cries at the drop of a hat. I'm oversensitive, if anything. I'm a mom. I'm very earthy, crunchy granola. I compost.

Alysia Reiner

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It's interesting when you're old enough to take a new, objective approach looking at your parents, frame them in a way where you are actually taking yourself out of the equation and just look at the things that are true about their life.

Robert Downey, Jr.

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I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.

River Phoenix

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We want to bring people back to normal human social relationships. Your digital stuff can be there, but it doesn't have to take over your whole world.

Rony Abovitz

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When I did 'Bremner, Bird and Fortune' I think it was accepted that comedians can contest the arguments just as well as journalists.

Rory Bremner

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I don't want to write a hagiography on myself. To me, that is just a waste.

Ron DeSantis

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Congress, even with its frustrations, is the greatest instrument for justice and human welfare in the world.

Rush D. Holt, Jr.

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And I came close to losing a part of my foot on two occasions. I hope I'm consistently lucky and that the next time I develop a blister or step on something sharp, that I don't go as far as I did on those two times.

Mary Tyler Moore

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