“People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phrases that people uses every day, like: "Be realistic!"[…] You never hear someone go "Be realistic! Let me oil you."”

—  Dylan Moran

What It Is (2009)

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Irish actor and comedian 1971

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