Matthew Macfadyen Quotes

I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone.

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• I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.

  

  Hailey Gates
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• The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.

  

  Calvin Johnson
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• I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.

  

  Samina Baig
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• Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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• I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.

  

  Sam Hunt
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• My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.

  

  Gary Allan
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• Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.

  

  Ira Glass
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• I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
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• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  

  Pat Robertson
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• When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.

  

  Jack Whitehall
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• Apparently, Daniel Craig said I'd be a great Bond. Daniel, why did you say that? Dropped me right in it! What an honor it would be, but also, what an indication of change.

  

  Idris Elba
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• The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.

  

  Beck
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• Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
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• Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.

  

  Oksana Baiul
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• Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.

  

  Gabriel Macht
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• I'm more prone to his '70s material, which is what I was around for and watched a lot. I listen to a lot of that stuff. It probably influenced me quite a bit. I'm more drawn to the darker, sadder songs.

  

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• I grew up singing and dancing, so people have been calling me gay since fifth grade. I've heard everything you could possibly hear about it. But I do love gay people, so I'm not going to act like I was insulted or angry about it.

  

  Matthew Morrison
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• As for Gordon Brown - I've described him and Blair as two cheeks of the same arse.

  

  George Galloway

• I live in a craftsman house, but I'm a big fan of modernist and mid-century furniture and architecture, too. But my dream is to do a truly original chair design, something that is all these different things but is my own, too.

  

  Luke Macfarlane
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• Mexico has shelters, which care for children trying to cross the border, who have no company with them.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
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• I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone.

  

  Matthew Macfadyen
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