Matt Damon Quotes
Being known as a writer did change the relationships I had with directors. The rap on actors is that they always want to inflate their parts. But when directors know you write screenplays and have a different view of things, you really get invited into the huddle in a much fuller way. And those collaborations end in friendships.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
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Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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The challenge with SXSW and events like it is it's so big and overwhelming, it's easy to get lost in the crowd.
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Every first episode of a season has been crafted like another pilot.
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In 'Clockwork Orange,' you're there with your eyes, watching all those things, your brain goes off, ahh, exposes you to so many things, and at the end of the day, it's just like a roller coaster. Why do you jump in a roller coaster? You want a thrill.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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I do think the love-gone-wrong songs go over better, only because those melodies and those lyrics have a different feel that you can grasp on if you're a torch singer like myself.
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Being known as a writer did change the relationships I had with directors. The rap on actors is that they always want to inflate their parts. But when directors know you write screenplays and have a different view of things, you really get invited into the huddle in a much fuller way. And those collaborations end in friendships.
