Matthew Macfadyen Quotes
I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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I live with my family on the top of a hill in the country, and during the days, my house is quiet, save for the occasional excitement of the FedEx truck heading up the driveway. I write.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.
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Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman – her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
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Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.
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Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that.
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Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
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I appreciate the response and the support of fans, of people who actually don't mind watching me on screen... I just don't ever want to jeopardize that.
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I don't know what I've done that has made people so interested in me, more than anyone else.
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The battleground has been moderates of all faith traditions in all the countries of the world against the radicals of all faith traditions in all parts of the world.
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So many Irish actors overplay that modesty because they're afraid people will judge them and say, 'The state of yer man, he thinks he's great,' or whatever.
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The transition from the original Xbox to the Wii wasn't a big deal for my team. The business hadn't changed fundamentally.
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Obviously, not playing a game before playoffs is something that happened, but especially going into the playoffs, you try to feel yourself out, where you're at, and then get right into game tempo and jump right in and play where you were before the injury.
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I use a note-taking system I learned in history class in eleventh grade.
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Like every mother, it's my children; that's the first thing that makes me really proud. For my own part, it would be when I became a Queen's Counsel in 1995. I was the 76th woman ever to become a Queen's Counsel, so it was still a pretty rare thing.
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Good products win out.
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A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
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May God help us to prepare a dwelling place for this noble birth, so that we may all attain spiritual motherhood
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I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.
