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've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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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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If women want to be treated equally, then they can't ask for sops and whine about not being treated equally. All I'll say is no guts, no glory for men or women.
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One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
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We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers.
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The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
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I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.
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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.
