Matthew Macfadyen Quotes
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You can't choose up sides on a round world.
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I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting.
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For the future world-trading regime to mirror economic reality and to allow the use of modern business strategies, we need a single overarching multilateral framework for trade. We can have either a flat world or a patchwork of crisscrossing mountain ranges and tunnels.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
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I am basically a private person.
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What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.
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Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.
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I come with bad genetics, personally.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego.
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I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them... I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price.
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If I know somebody is coming 'round, it is incredibly difficult for me to work because I'm waiting for this interruption - even the children's comings and goings are interruptions. Cake-making is a good way of coming out of that space.
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Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.
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It's very hard to remain a student in life.
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I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
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I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's.
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It does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion.
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I have a shallow understanding of what it means to be alive, and I know certain things about parenting and being a wife and doing the school run. I know little bits, but I'm really a paddler on a beach.
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You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.
