Matt Smith Quotes
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I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not.
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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It is, I think, the very chaos of America that allowed me to prosper.
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I hired Tina Fey for 'SNL,' which was certainly a good match. She took off right away there.
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If you're 30, 40 years old, you're not getting listened to by minors.
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We're certainly interested in maximizing our return and doing it - we're interested in maximizing our return, but we're also interested in doing it over a long period of time and in doing it in a way that never endangers the firm from a survivability standpoint.
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I take big risks, but I'm not reckless about it.
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I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.
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As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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I have so many fashion mistakes, but that's part of being in fashion. I think the people that you see make the most mistakes are usually the best dressers.
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I am political. But not politically active. I'm not my dad. I'll never write polemic, as he did.
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I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote.
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I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.
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You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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Avoiding Procrastination: Doing things at the last minute is much more expensive than just before the last minute. Deadlines are really important: establish them yourself!
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Our most urgent problem just now is how to preserve in a positive and critical form the soul of truth in the two great traditions, classical and Christian, that are crumbling as mere dogma.
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You must form your own fashions in a way which demonstrates that you flout the standards from knowledge, not from ignorance. . . But I may flout the standards? . . . Of course. What do you think standards are for?
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I don't do facials - I don't really enjoy people picking at my skin. I'd rather a dermatologist who's a doctor for that do that.
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I fell in love at 14 and I remember that mad, tense feeling and all the mad things you do for the person - all those extremes and all the stuff you don't mind putting up with.
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I feel a lot of cities are like, you go and you are trying to do your art, and there are so many other artists there who are so brilliant. And it's kind of like they stomp on the scene, and they are like, "You're not already Picasso? Get the hell out of here!" And Memphis is like, "Well, you'll get there one day!"
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Spiders - the way they move freaks me out. It's so malevolent.
