Matt Robinson Quotes
You know, people who almost - yeah, there's a slight reluctance there - but there's also an ambiguity. What are their morals? What is their code of living. What are they really doing here. And it is just interesting because it is never black or white.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.
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Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.
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An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
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I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.
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He was not only a bore; he bored for England.
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.
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It was clear that if I didn't spend the rest of my life concentrating on string theory, I would simply be missing my life's calling.
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There's no glamour in stupid mistakes.
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Families have a sense of kinship that no four strangers would ever have as a team.
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Who you are, what you are, does not change after you occupy the oval office. All it does is magnify who you are. All it does is shine a spotlight on who you are.
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I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers.
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You know, people who almost - yeah, there's a slight reluctance there - but there's also an ambiguity. What are their morals? What is their code of living. What are they really doing here. And it is just interesting because it is never black or white.
