Matthew Goode Quotes
I'm very much a jobbing actor who's still trying to find a place to rent down the road.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.
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All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.
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I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.
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If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
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Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.
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When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all of my book tours since then have involved me coming to a library and talking about how important libraries are for a community.
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I'm not really wise. But I can be cranky.
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There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
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If young people don’t like reading, let’s not blame television or the modern world or school. Or rather, blame them all, but only after asking what we have done to that ideal reader since the days when we played at being both storyteller and book.
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Environment, education, experience, make men conscious of passing reality but overwhelm their intuitive capacity when this is not very strong.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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I'm very much a jobbing actor who's still trying to find a place to rent down the road.
