Matt Bomer Quotes
Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I like things simple.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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The rule was I had to go to college, and I couldn't even go to theater camp.
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I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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Watch people, because you can fake for a long time, but one day you're gonna show yourself to be a phony.
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I'd been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn't see my way out. So I picked myself up one day about 15 years ago and moved where I didn't know anyone.
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Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.
