Matthew McConaughey Quotes
I'm not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It's really not my place.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
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I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.
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I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?
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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they're immortal.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
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To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.
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As the Internet of things advances, the very notion of a clear dividing line between reality and virtual reality becomes blurred, sometimes in creative ways.
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I have a lot of Breton striped top and silk shirts that always feel good. I also like things with a masculine edge and dislike anything too girly.
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Try to see things differently - It's the only way to get a clearer perspective on the world and on your life.
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I always loved strange stories like the Dr. Seuss stuff. 'Go, Dog. Go!' was one of my favorite stories - it still is. It's just such a bizarre yet true book. And I did well reading and writing as a kid throughout school. I think early on that's what made me realize what an advantage that is.
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The first long chapter of my career was almost entirely theater so that, by the time I was 30, 35, I sort of knew who I was as an actor, and I was gradually learning who I was as a human being.
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I'm not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It's really not my place.
