Matt Roper Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.
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I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.
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I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.
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Presidents and speakers for over 100 years had tried to pass affordable care for all Americans. It was challenged over and over. The Supreme Court declared it constitutional.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
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Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
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Without coffee, nothing gets written. Period.
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I am an urban vegan. I love the glossy pages of 'Vogue,' even though I won't purchase the leather shoes and bags I see there, and being reminded that the fur trade even exists breaks my heart.
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If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
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Doing improv really got me started in my whole career.
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My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family.
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My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.
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I also work out because I have scoliosis. I have to maintain certain strength in my core.
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There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.
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We must remember to enjoy ourselves.
