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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Neglect of appearance becomes men.
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Each game we make, we like to introduce an emotion that is rarely experienced by gamers in the console game industry.
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I usually write when I'm in a great place. When I'm depressed, I don't usually write. So I take all of when I'm depressed and throw it into when I'm feeling good. Weird, I guess.
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I've always been fascinated by flight and the freeness of birds.
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To be a Jew is an act of the strenuous mind as it stands before the fakeries and lying seductions of the world, saying no and no again as they parade by in all their allure. And to be a writer is to plunge into the parade and become one of the delirious marchers.
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You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.
