Matt Ridley Quotes
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.
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When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.
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In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.
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I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.
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I've just seen that there is a really amazing perspective that we're missing by not having more women directing.
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I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.
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You should stop asking your politicians how they’re gonna do it.
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There are always interesting, innovative, dynamic stories being written and being published. They're not always being prominently published, but they're being published.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
Work is therapy for the soul.
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Wealth and power are means to women; women are means to genetic eternity.
