Matthew Modine Quotes
We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.
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I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.
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The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.
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Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.
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Without realizing it, the architect had given these people a means of escaping into a new life, and a pattern of social organization that would become the paradigm of all future high-rise blocks.
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I might not be a great athlete, but I think I'm a real good football player.
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This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.
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You see any movie, and it's just a feat of human strength and perseverance. It is a brutally challenging business.
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We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.
