Matthew Modine Quotes
So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.
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I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.
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One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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People who are over-educated become risk-averse.
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There's an impression that actors make a lot of choices. I just take what's there.
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In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.
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Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.
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If an umpire misses a called third strike and the other side ends up scoring because of it, I'm not going to forget it. If there are runners on second and third and two out, and if the umpire has just given the hitter an extra strike and the next pitch goes into the hole and both runs score, I've got to say something to the guy.
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People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I keep showing up and saying, 'No, there must be a way for me to live in this world,' that shows I'm an eternal optimist.
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So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light.
