Matthew Fox Quotes
I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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I'm not that ambitious chick. I'm not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I've just never been that girl. I've always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he's already blessed me with a lot.
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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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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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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I wrote 'Thelma & Louise' in 1988, and we shot it in 1990. Everyone kept saying, 'This is so groundbreaking... this is going to change the landscape,' but I don't see that result at all. When we saw some female studio executives, we were hopeful that more women would be hired as directors, but that didn't really seem to happen.
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I wanna be more like the Rihanna kind of, Beyonce kind of thing, but I don't want to compare myself to anybody, because I wanna be somebody new, too.
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In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.
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I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are not mutually exclusive things.
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Film is mostly a visual medium, and so the director has much more control in terms of painting pictures and painting a performance. For theater, the director does everything he can and then says, 'Out you go,' and the actors are in charge of that stage every night.
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I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.
