Matthew McConaughey Quotes
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
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I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.
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I don't think Christ becomes real to us until we hit a low point in our lives and realize just how much we need Him. That's why faith affects every area of your life.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.
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I guess you could say I took the hard route. That doesn't work for everybody, but it's worked out all right for me.
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But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance.
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No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.
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We listen too much to the telephone and too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing.
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I don't know how to work a room. It's a real skill.
