Matthew Modine Quotes
I bought all the stuff, but nothing was as satisfying to me as using the Rolleiflex because it was one shot.
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I am Damian Lewis, not Daniel Day-Lewis.
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I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.
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I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.
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I love to cook. I love having friends over and family. I am definitely a feeder - I feed everybody. I am jumping around the kitchen like a crazy woman.
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When you're guest-starring, it's very nice, but you're there very briefly, and it's right there in the name: You're a guest. It's very hard to get a real sense of belonging. With recurring and regular roles, at least you have a sense that this is a home and a steady place.
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I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.
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Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference.
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Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.
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Rather than support workers at home or investments in public schools, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan support the Bush-era tax cuts for the very wealthy. They want to hand over our schools to private corporations.
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There is no longer any anonymity on the Web - unless we mandate it. The most personal information about your online habits is collected, bought and sold, often instantaneously and invisibly. Data collection is a business driven by profits at consumers' expense.
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I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.
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Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.
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I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.
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I want nothing to do with O.J. Simpson. I want that name so far behind me, I want it out of my life.
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We think of divinity as something infinitely big, but it is also infinitely small - the condensation of your breath on your palms, the ridges in your fingertips, the warm space between your shoulder and the shoulder next to you.
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We all have friends and loved ones who say 60's the new 30. No. Sixty's the new 60.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Since St. Augustine announced that Eve - and, hence, collective woman - was responsible for original sin, rabid sexism has been a major pillar of patriarchal religious tradition.
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I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful.
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What was said before is not important.
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On 'Sanjay and Craig,' I've had a number of chances to work with Chris Hardwick, and that is so much fun.
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Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of exhausting, the system; such as recur frequently, rather than continue long; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety; such as are chastened by self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused.
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I bought all the stuff, but nothing was as satisfying to me as using the Rolleiflex because it was one shot.
