Matt Smith Quotes
I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams.
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.
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I'm going for something very raw and organic.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.
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I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well.
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To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper.
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My parents gave me the easy option that if you're going to go your way, that's the highway. You can expect no funds and no support, which I think was legitimate; that was a fair option.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.
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People ask me, 'Isn't it scary living on your own?' but in this industry, being at events, doing interviews, and doing promotion and constantly chatting about yourself, sometimes it's really nice to just sit in silence or take a day where you can sleep in until 3 P.M. and then stay up as late as you like.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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Fashion anticipates.
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
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In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up.
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A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu
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In my wildest dreams, I never would have thought we'd come to the point where were talking about the re-election of a black president.
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We all want what every girl wants: to look fabulous while we're out there ruling the world.
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It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.
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I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams.
