Matthew Macfadyen Quotes
I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
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The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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As Senator, I will always put the health and safety of New Hampshire's families first.
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
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In France and other European countries, film stars are more celebrated. In Germany, if we are good at what we do, we are respected but not acclaimed. And, of course, we are not paid like Americans are.
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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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As a former teacher and someone who has devoted her entire career to children and public schools, I understand the pain and frustration of parents who feel their children are not receiving the education they deserve.
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I don't mind Ryan Bader thinking he deserves a title shot.
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I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.
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Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.
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I'd love to play a gangster but I think people might say I looked a bit too young and cheeky to play a character who'd just blown someones head off!
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People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel.
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When I read 'Room,' I absolutely loved it, and I thought I knew how to make it.
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I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.
