Matthew Heineman Quotes
I think in 'Escape Fire,' we really look at the military as a microcosm for the rest of America.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.
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I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.
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In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them.
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I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic.
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I've been in Africa, America, moving around a lot. It's helped me to open up my mind. I was born in Jamaica; I've lived all my life there and got all I could from Jamaica. But I needed to be somewhere else to grow.
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I think I first got into acting through church. I would go to these church retreats, and they would tell us to make a skit or make a video and present it to the rest of the group. And I started doing that. And I fell in love with it.
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I think the American people are looking for real leadership. That's what I've done in Louisiana, that's what I'll do in America.
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I think in 'Escape Fire,' we really look at the military as a microcosm for the rest of America.
