Matt Smith Quotes
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I don't get recognised that much in the street.
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For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.
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My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.
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Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.
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I have a great office.
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This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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There were a few teachers who just did not like me because of my face. Once, I was told to stand in the corner until I cheered up. The attitude was, 'Oh, for God's sake, what's the matter with him?' But it's just a natural expression.
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Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.
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I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.
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There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.
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The music industry is in such poor shape; it's in a really bad way, and a lot of people in the industry are very depressed.
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I have two cats at home in Minnesota with my family. Beau and Skippy.
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A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.
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But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.
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I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.
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MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna.
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I think that one of the reasons that we chose the word love as the subject is because your human connection and how you affect everybody around you, you'll only understand the gravity of that as you pass later on in life. I think as artists it's our ability to communicate that in certain ways.
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The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable.
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If a book is worth reading at all, it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants, designed to take your breath away when the brain and heart crave to linger in nobler enjoyment. Suspense drags you on; appreciation causes you to linger.
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I am a fancy dress grump, to be honest.
