Matthew Macfadyen Quotes

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

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• River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.

  

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• I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.

  

  Lamar Alexander
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• People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.

  

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• Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.

  

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• I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.

  

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• I'm not the type of person that is forced.

  

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• The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
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• Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.

  

  Walter O'Brien
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• By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

  

  Walter Gilbert
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• In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.

  

  Taya Kyle
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• The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.

  

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• Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

  

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• Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Age
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• I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.

  

  Jack O'Brien
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  • Broadway

• 'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.

  

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• I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.

  

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• By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?

  

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• But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.

  

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• I don't want to be a historical action figure or treated like I'm dead. Like one of those people where they go, 'Oh, isn't she dead?' And then I walk up, and they're like, 'Whoa.' I can't really complain... because I've made myself into a historical action figure. I was like, 'Yeah, come on in!'

  

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• The Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations all fell victim to chronically relying on Beijing's empty promises with the distant hope that China would finally use its influence to reign in Pyongyang's provocative behavior, to no avail.

  

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• The most dangerous part of the race is early evening and especially early morning. It's the twilight zone. Either you're going into darkness and the sun is dropping down, or you're coming out of the darkness and the sun is coming up. At the same time, you've got new drivers coming in and feeling their way around the circuit.

  

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• I tend to build bulk and muscle easily, and running seems to make sure I stay kind of stringy, if that makes sense.

  

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• Holed up at the New Orleans Superdome hoping to get on a bus for Houston's Astrodome.

  

  Allen Toussaint
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• I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

  

  Matthew Macfadyen
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