Matthew Macfadyen Quotes
Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they're vulnerable - that that hauteur or standoffishiness is because they're pedaling furiously underneath.
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The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.
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I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.
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One challenge in this industry is that you adopt a certain look for a movie, and then people don't get to see the movie for a year!
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New York City is one of the greatest places on the planet. You have the best in food, art, theatre, and definitely people-watching.
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As separate people, we are weak, but we could be a peaceful, powerful nation.
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I think I tried to control situations within my first marriage and I wasn't the easiest person to live with.
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Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they're vulnerable - that that hauteur or standoffishiness is because they're pedaling furiously underneath.
