Drea De Matteo Quotes
I don't think anybody is ever going to call me to play someone who is mousy and demure.
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I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
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I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.
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Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.
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I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.
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Even though it's a shortened format of the game, Twenty20 allows people with different skills to play in a team and play their specific roles. Obviously there's not too much time to waste balls, but if you look at guys who play well in the top six, they have a fairly decent amount of good cricketing ability.
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Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?
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Very few people have the guts to come up to you and say, 'Hey, are you gay?'
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I have a particular image, and my customers know my line isn't going to be so trendy it will be out of style next year.
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The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
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We are the second oldest state in the Union because too many of our young people are leaving Pennsylvania. They are leaving Pennsylvania behind for opportunities elsewhere.
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Although I started off as a child artist, I left acting in between, as I felt that I was missing the fun of school days. But a little later, I became keen on acting again and started going for auditions.
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Why did I choose Washington among offers from other cities? Because it is the capital of the world.
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Goethe said, 'The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing'; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he ever received was a letter in which one of his readers said: 'I read your novel without having to look up a single word in the dictionary.' These writers, plainly, lived in different worlds.
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I don't care if my opponents are cheating or not.
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And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park.
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I used to think I was going to die wise, and now, the one wisdom I have is I know very little.
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I met Malcolm the month before he was killed. He deeply changed my mind about America.
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The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
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Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.
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I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and be a good man. A lot of the principals they taught me still affect how I act sometimes and it's 30 years later.
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The derision comes from snobbery, which I think is the worst thing for art and music. I don't think there's any place for it and it comes from insecurity.
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I don't think anybody is ever going to call me to play someone who is mousy and demure.
