Matthew Modine Quotes
I bought all the stuff, but nothing was as satisfying to me as using the Rolleiflex because it was one shot.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. Women often have to flee from the only homes they have ever known. Women are often the refugees from conflict and sometimes, more frequently in today's warfare, victims. Women are often left with the responsibility, alone, of raising the children.
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If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty.
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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war.
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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.
