Matt Smith Quotes
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I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.
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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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Also, differences of opinion can be creatively stimulating as well as frustrating.
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
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Archetypes are always [in my film-making]. It's sometimes interesting to just flip them a little bit and see the underside.
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Like every artist that comes out, you want to make a mark; you want to be a household name and you want to be someone that people are going to look back in ten years/fifteen years' time and go, 'I love this guy Olly Murs. He was brilliant back in the day; he was someone I really, really liked.'
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You just don't get funding to go out and find God. Even if you did, you'd have to first define what you mean by 'God.'
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Spiders - the way they move freaks me out. It's so malevolent.
