Matthew Modine Quotes
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Cottonmouth is the result of having to react to his circumstances. He had to, in some ways, take control of the situation and own his circumstances. But as a result of that, he became a person he didn't intend to become.
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I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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You need to understand the batsman, where he plays his shot usually, which is his release shot, and then change the angle, vary the pace, line and length. You cannot always react after being at the receiving end.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.
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MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
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I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.
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Rich Palm Beach clients all wanted the same kind of different thing.
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No healthy man, in his secret heart, is content with his destiny. He is tortured by dreams and images as a child is tortured by the thought of a state of existence in which it would live in a candy store and have two stomachs.
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Girls don't really recognize me on the street. No one has tried to serenade me or rip my shirt off.
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I've been through a couple of mergers - they're not that fun. And it's easy to lose your focus on this grandiose mission you established for yourself as an independent company.
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All of a sudden, I was a young kid in my early 20s, and I had a couple of Broadway shows to my credit.
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I've worked with Robert Altman a couple of times too.
