Matthew McConaughey Quotes
There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, 'Oh, you're playing yourself.' I guess it's kind of a compliment. Or people say, 'Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.' The work is to make it look effortless. That's the hard part.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
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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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I have always loathed working out.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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I love my shape because I work really hard at it. I honor my body by working out and seeing what it can do.
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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I'm a strong fighter, I'm a fighter who can adapt to my surroundings.
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I love a big, character-rich story with a dark heart, with a compelling mystery or some kind of ticking clock at its center. I want to be lured in by prose, captured by character, and bound by stellar plotting to keep turning the pages.
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As always, it would be important to ensure that any fiscal policy changes did not compromise long-run fiscal sustainability.
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I feel that the music that I do is somewhat of a lost art and it's not as popular as dance or pop music and people are not as interested in it. But it's something that I believe in and I feel that it's needed, so that's why I do it and I will keep doing it until everybody hears it and gets it.
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At the end of the day, you release music because you believe in the songs and believe that they're honest. That's all you can really hope for.
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Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the form of sexuality. Gender emerges as the congealed form of the sexualization of inequaltiy between men and women.
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There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, 'Oh, you're playing yourself.' I guess it's kind of a compliment. Or people say, 'Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.' The work is to make it look effortless. That's the hard part.
