Matt Smith Quotes
I think you can hear the struggles and hear a realness in Theocracy songs, a human element that you don't get from a lot of the typical Christian stuff.
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People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.
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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though.
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Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
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We must live fully in order to secrete the substance of our work, but we have to work alone.
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In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.
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It was my dad's idea to change my name from Sahatciu to Ora. He said it would be easier to pronounce.
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I started crying the other day just thinking that the baby is going to leave me soon! You have this relationship with this person in your belly and it's really amazing.
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I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.
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I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.
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I remember as a kid being asked if I was Jewish or Irish. I said, like the glib little 15-year-old I was, 'You can be both.' Feeling very pleased with myself. Before they smacked me.
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Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.
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I've done a handful of great roles.
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My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.
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I've got Indian looks, but there is nothing in my background.
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Entrepreneurs are not driven by fear; they are driven by the idea to create impact.
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I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.
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It was a pretty fierce rivalry. I'm just speaking for myself, but I think it was general through the clubs. We didn't like them, and they didn't like us.
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Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.
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My mother had heard all about miniskirts but had never seen one so I took her for lunch at Alvaro's [in Chelsea]. We walked down the King's Road and waited 10 seconds for our first miniskirt and a girl came along with her skirt tucked round her arse. I said: 'What do you think, ma?' And she said: 'If it's not for sale, you shouldn't put it in the window!'
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I make no apologies for loving the finer things in life or the men I choose to date. I don't feel bad about the person I am. Now, I do have an edge, rawness and realness, and I can tell you I'm going to keep that.
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I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty.
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I think you can hear the struggles and hear a realness in Theocracy songs, a human element that you don't get from a lot of the typical Christian stuff.
