Matthew Davis Quotes
Initially, I had started doing theater, where the actor has a direct relationship to the audience. So, moving into film and television disconnected me. When you do a film, you start to get the character, and then it disappears for a year before it's released and you get feedback.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
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Beginning with the No Child Left Behind law and continuing today with Race to the Top, the federal emphasis on standardized assessments has become so excessive that it has modified state and district behavior in troubling ways.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children - because they are all our children.
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I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!
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The United States is the only advanced country that permits the pharmaceutical industry to charge exactly what the market will bear, whatever it wants.
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One of America's best investments in peace and security is our special relationship with Israel.
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At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.
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The government invented the Internet.
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The main goal in any criminal statute is to produce what's best for the victim. And sometimes, a mandatory minimum doesn't accomplish that.
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Initially, I had started doing theater, where the actor has a direct relationship to the audience. So, moving into film and television disconnected me. When you do a film, you start to get the character, and then it disappears for a year before it's released and you get feedback.
