Chris Matthews Quotes

[John F. Kennedy] was Arthur, the guy in the middle of the room with all the swords pointed at him. ... He wanted control of the situation.

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• I think that a leader is someone that needs to make an impact on, off the cricket field and in their lives as well.

  

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• I remember when I was little, much younger than I was when I started modeling, people always said, 'Oh, you should be a model.' But I didn't like people telling me what to do... But I didn't plan to transform into an actress, either. It just happened.

  

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• For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.

  

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• If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?

  

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• I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.

  

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• I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.

  

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• I don't have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role.

  

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• Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

  

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• My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.

  

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• I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.

  

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• I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.

  

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• I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?

  

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• I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.

  

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• Life is too short to be on a diet.

  

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• I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.

  

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• I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.

  

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• When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the history itself is not something that I would call backdrop. It's not window dressing for a timeless relationship about love and betrayal. For me, the setting and the specific history are active co-agents with me in trying to form the novel.

  

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• wit, wit! - I look upon it always as a draught of air; it cools indeed, but one gets a stiff neck from it.

  

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• Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.

  

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• My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy.

  

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• In the Middle Ages, everything bad was the work of the devil, everything good, the work of God. Today, the French see everything in reverse and blame the Germans for it.

  

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• [John F. Kennedy] was Arthur, the guy in the middle of the room with all the swords pointed at him. ... He wanted control of the situation.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Guy
  • Control
  • Situation