Matt Bomer Quotes
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Women don't give up things. They don't give up responsibilities. They add new things. They exhaust themselves and still don't give anything up. And. And. And. And. And they do all these other things at the same time, which can be exhausting.
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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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I've done loads of things people have never seen - dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush - and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.
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Sometimes, it's good to stick to your guns.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee that resembles an upside-down sea horse.
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I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.
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In 1998, I self-published online in order to get a traditional deal.
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I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first they're going to love 'Harry Potter,' or they may love 'The Hunger Games,' but after that, they're going to love the act of reading and wonder, 'What else can I read?'
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My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.
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I've been wanting to write a book about what goes into creating a novel, and the story behind 'A Passage to India' is especially interesting.
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The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
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There was a point when it all really took off and got quite overwhelming, even though I didn't realize it.
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I had smoked pot and drank every day for two years. I was taking Vicodin by the handful. Valium, Xanax, Dilaudid, Lorcet, Lortab, Perocet, you name it. It's so easy. It's L.A., you know? You just get it from people.
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Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi;Consider the Empire and Gandhi.
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58: Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will? The God who made giraffes, a baby's fingernails, a puppy's tail, a crooknecked squash, the bobwhite's call, and a young girl's giggle, has a sense of humor. Make no mistake about that.
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'I suspect we would be wise,' he said without looking up, 'to avoid declaring what God will or will not allow.'
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My sense is that we may not need the language of innateness or genetics to understand that we are all ethically bound to recognize another person's declared or enacted sense of sex and/or gender. We do not have to agree upon the "origins" of that sense of self to agree that it is ethically obligatory to support and recognize sexed and gendered modes of being that are crucial to a person's well-being.
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Rolling my trousers down to expose the upper part of my buttocks and having a knife pressed up and down my spine by a Russian white witch, as she murmured incantations, was certainly a new experience to cure my backache. It was surprisingly soothing.
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I put on muscle really quick.
