Matt Ross Quotes
My background is in largely in theatre and acting. I grew up in a town with a well-respected Shakespeare Festival, and I fell in with some kids whose parents worked there. We staged all-kid versions of 'Hamlet', 'Cymbeline', a few others. All the while, I was making short films; monster movies, slapstick comedies, claymation.Matt Ross
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
Gary Speed -
A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
J. J. Watt -
I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
Randa Haines -
The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
Halsey -
Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
Eartha Kitt -
In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
Randy Lerner
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Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'
E. L. Konigsburg -
Personally, becoming a mother has been such a rewarding and wonderful experience. However, at times it has also been a huge challenge. Even for me who has support at home that most mothers do not.
Kate Middleton -
A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
Larry McMurtry -
I believe we are our own inner hand - the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire - no matter what the challenges!
Karen Salmansohn -
I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.
Patrick deWitt -
When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral outrage. After Bizet died, at age 37, 'Carmen' became wildly popular. If you believe in your creation, and the rest of the world is laughing or yelling 'Boo,' don't give up.
Karen DeCrow
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We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
Octavia Spencer -
I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.
Aage Bohr -
Cricket was my reason for living.
Harold Larwood -
I think it's always very important to be comfortable and just kind of expressive; if you take fashion too seriously, then you lose the fun of it. I think you should always take the risk.
Zoe Kravitz -
Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
Tarja Halonen -
Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.
D. B. Weiss
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Although 'The Anderson Platoon' was what we would now call an 'embedded film' - with all the ambiguities that term implies - somehow Schoendoerffer got away with showing things as they really were from a grunt's perspective.
Kevin Macdonald -
They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.
Janet Frame -
People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.
Samuel L. Jackson -
Follow your passion. Be yourself, but check yourself before you wreck yourself.
Andy Cohen -
I think it's true for all of us, if you find yourself doing really well at something, then the pressure is on you to try to improve.
Joe Morton -
My background is in largely in theatre and acting. I grew up in a town with a well-respected Shakespeare Festival, and I fell in with some kids whose parents worked there. We staged all-kid versions of 'Hamlet', 'Cymbeline', a few others. All the while, I was making short films; monster movies, slapstick comedies, claymation.
Matt Ross