Matt Smith Quotes
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
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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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Shall an invention be patented or donated to the public freely? I have known some well-meaning scientific men ... to look askance at the patenting of inventions, as if it were a rather selfish and ungracious act, essentially unworthy. The answer is very simple. Publish an invention freely, and it will almost surely die from lack of interest in its development. It will not be developed and the world will not be benefited. Patent it, and if valuable, it will be taken up and developed into a business.
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The Universe is a friendly place.
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I don't really consider my work, on the whole, 'fringe' in my own mind; science fiction and fantasy have been pretty solidly in the mainstream for a while.
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I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising.
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I am a fancy dress grump, to be honest.
