Matthew James Thomas Quotes

The thing with 'Pippin' is not to over think it too much. If you try and overthink or plan and over-analyze - it's like with any role really, but this one specifically - you can run into sogging wet newspaper. It's just too exciting to do that. It's nice to be bounced around and surprised at almost every line that comes out of your mouth.

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• I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • People
  • America
  • Small

• I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Brave

• You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Independent
  • Movies

• For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Know

• I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Great
  • Car
  • Drive

• Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Women
  • True
  • Dream

• I am not keen just for the position; I'm keen to help and to serve. If I can really avoid any bad things on my country, I will not hesitate one second.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Country
  • Help
  • Position

• Health food makes me sick.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Food
  • Health
  • Sick

• Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Films

• Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Me

• Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Old

• I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Never
  • Dying
  • Pasta

• I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Free
  • Training
  • Enjoy

• I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for us to have votes, for women to have votes in particular - your vote is your one weapon.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Women
  • Power

• What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • Woman
  • For Her

• Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Way
  • Hit
  • Los Angeles

• I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.

  

  Dana Fox
  • Chance
  • Direct
  • Tone

• I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Feeling

• I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • People
  • Energy

• What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Heart
  • Fun
  • Soul

• I guess I did get to tick a big one off the bucket list, though, and that was being on a giant billboard smack-bang in the hub of Hollywood Boulevard. That was... well, pretty Hollywood.

  

  Jay Ryan
  • Pretty

• Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity.

  

  William Blackstone
  • People
  • Hell
  • Crime

• The thing with 'Pippin' is not to over think it too much. If you try and overthink or plan and over-analyze - it's like with any role really, but this one specifically - you can run into sogging wet newspaper. It's just too exciting to do that. It's nice to be bounced around and surprised at almost every line that comes out of your mouth.

  

  Matthew James Thomas
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