Matthew Hayden Quotes
As a civilian not playing sport, to get that sense of real belonging and feeling how you are progressing through the day is what I loved and miss.
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
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I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.
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Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun.
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Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.
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As much as you try to organize your life, life will surprise you.
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The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.
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Every human actions becomes dangerous when it is deprived of human feeling. When they are performed with feeling and respect for human values, all activities become constructive.
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As a civilian not playing sport, to get that sense of real belonging and feeling how you are progressing through the day is what I loved and miss.
