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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Today, 65 percent of America's population live in metropolitan areas - and 95 percent of all the transit miles traveled are traveled there. Metropolitan regions are the engines of our economy.
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It was an unknown thing, a lot of people had very bad trips and I like to be in control.
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I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.
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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
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Men who work to make it as computer whizzes or owners of black Porsches... are confused when they're told they are not vulnerable enough. We can't fall in love with men who appear invulnerable and expect vulnerability. Why did he want a black Porsche? Because he never saw an ugly woman get out of one.
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You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.
