Chris Matthews Quotes
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It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.
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Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
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A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
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A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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I would be concerned if any speech to Congress related any information that's new to the president of the United States.
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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
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In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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It seems that everywhere I go, people want the same things - security, education, family. It's just that so many people have no avenues through which to obtain these things.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work. And I didn't think about the material as much. But sometimes I've thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn't work out.
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Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.
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A massive state and federal effort, the likes of which we've never seen is going to be needed. We can do it for tsunami victims half a world away. We can do it for our own citizens.
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I don't think the GOP is going to die; I think Trump is going to revive it.
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I never wrote off [Donald] Trump.
