Matthew Macfadyen Quotes
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My hunger is always there.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.
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I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.
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For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
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Everyone in Tool is interested in how we present our music. We write a group of songs that have a vibe, energy and feeling, and then we try to pick an image to capture that and communicate a feeling. We want something that adds to the connection with the audience.
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AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.
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Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
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I guess I've dated smart guys, I've dated dumb guys, hot guys.
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When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.
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I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
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I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow.
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We know that the hardest work is to keep yourself open to the world that technology hasn't tamed.
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I had a lot of fun creating some restaurants with a casual note to it, such as DBGB, for example, where it was about bangers and beers, being a very casual brasserie with very affordable food but very interesting homemade program.
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If people are going to spend a night out at the theatre, they don't just want 'good' - we can watch box sets for that - they want it to be totally remarkable.
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I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.
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My grandmother, whom I adored, and who partly raised me, loved Liberace, and she watched Liberace every afternoon, and when she watched Liberace, she'd get dressed up and put on makeup because I think she thought if she could see Liberace, Liberace could see her.
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My recommendation is a compelling urgency for decentralisation. There is a necessity to decentralise the Police. We are under policed.
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Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.
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I just loved the whole idea of being an actor.
