Matt Stone Quotes
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.
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If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people.
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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Nothing surprises me when it comes to people in the entertainment business.
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Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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And that's why in my Gujarat, my motto is: minimum government, maximum governance.
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Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.
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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.
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Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is.
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Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said,'Trust in the Lord, but keep your powder dry.'
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There are good characters and bad characters.
