Matthew Macfadyen Quotes
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?
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I'm not into the attention thing so much.
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I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
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I love charity thrift stores. Amazing one-of-a-kind pieces at terrific prices, and all the money you spend goes to a good cause.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
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I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.
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While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I'd meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was 'too pretty to box.'
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.
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Sometimes you realize that the thing an actor is asking for isn't exactly the thing they want. Maybe they're asking for more dialogue, or maybe they want a deep intellectual exploration of their role. But probably what they really need is encouragement.
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Venture capital today is clustered in just a few locations - Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, and D.C. It's far from efficiently distributed and accessible.
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I like the Beatles very much, and there are certain things about the Stones that I like.
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We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.
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Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?
