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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He can neither read nor write and in him already there broods a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man.
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I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.
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Try everything with an open heart, looking to fall in love.
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You marry your friends when you stay with your friends. It's hard enough to find a good roommate, let alone a good person you can live with and fall in love with at the same time. You might as well just take your roommate, if you can find one, and marry them. I mean, if you can find somebody that doesn't drive you crazy, I would say marry that.
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'Damn you!' Dagenham raged, 'Don’t you realize that you can’t trust people? They don’t know enough for their own good.''Then let them learn or die. We’re all in this together. Let’s live or die together.'
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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.
