Matthew Heineman Quotes
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'Jurassic Park' and 'Star Wars' shoved me into loving sci-fi and film in general when I was a barely coherent 3-year-old. And 'Lord of the Rings' took me to another planet entirely. Before that series, I knew I loved writing, but after, I knew that I had to write.
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My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
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Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.
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For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.
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When I was in my teenage years, I went to sign up as a cadet entrant to the police force but was at the very last moment rejected, just as I was about to sign my name on the dotted line. I won't get into why that happened, but it was a moment where it could've been predetermined then that I was off to become a policeman.
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
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Sometimes you will think you can't take it another day. But if you hang in there, one step at a time, you will be able to accomplish more than you ever imagine.
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I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.
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Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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Poverty is the worst form of violence.
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Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.
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I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And I climbed the stairs, one by one.
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I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?'
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I wish I'd started having kids sooner so I could have had a few more.
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What was the American Revolution? The people who joined to carry it out had different views of what they had done.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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There is an outdated belief that girls are not as good at science and math subjects as boys. But according to the report 'Generation STEM,' high school girls earn more math and science credits than boys do, and their GPAs, aggregated across math and science classes, are higher than boys'.
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We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs.
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I don't know, maybe Australian humour isn't supposed to be funny. It's as dry as the Sahara, and I think people miss that.
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I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.
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The first Star Wars movie had come out in 1977 and had become this huge phenomenon with all the toys and everything - it just kind of swept America.
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Bombs are not going to fix ISIS.
