Matthew Nable Quotes

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

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• People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.

  

  Samantha Mumba
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  • Waiting

• It's really exciting to be able to represent the cruiserweights and go to Monday Night Raw. I grew up watching Monday Night Raw, and it's really a big dream of mine to perform on that stage.

  

  T. J. Perkins
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  • Dream
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• Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
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  • Feeling
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• No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.

  

  Dan Gable
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• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
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• I just want to be rich and famous.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Want
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  • Rich

• That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
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  • Reality
  • Military

• It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

  

  E. O. Wilson
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  • Believe

• My party trick is that I can get ready to go to the party really quickly. I'm actually a woman that can have a shower, dry and style her hair, do her make-up and get dressed in under an hour.

  

  Natalie Dormer
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• Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.

  

  Gail Sheehy
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• Whenever someone says something bad about you, just confront them on it and just be a man and own up to it. If you said something you shouldn t have said, and it's important to somebody you need to talk to, you need to go talk to them. Be a man. Step up.

  

  J. R. Smith
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• I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
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• The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.

  

  Famke Janssen
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• I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
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• Am I good enough to be No. 1? Sure, but who's gonna break Tiger's legs? I want to be the best. Can I? Oh, believe me, I will be trying. Hard. You grow up in Colombia, and everything is limited. Then, I come here, and you have everything. A trainer, nutritionist, coach. I'm very lucky. Many doors open, and I have a path to take.

  

  Camilo Villegas
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• The first album I started out, I just did everything completely alone. I think it has to do with confidence. The more confidence you develop in your own sound, the more you can open up and alchemize that with other people, just set it free, and not feel challenged by that.

  

  Bat for Lashes
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• There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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• I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything.

  

  Bo Jackson
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  • Guy
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• I'm interested in listening to the people who walk in the door. If your ego and your accomplishments stop you from listening, then they've taught you nothing.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
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  • Listening

• I joined the Communist Party when I was 18. When I was 10, there was the miners' strike, and the Cold War was going on; it was quite a potent time to get involved in politics. I got involved through my grandfather, who was a member.

  

  Maxine Peake
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• We can see our liberties vanishing here in the United States... A little bit here and a little piece there... We can see it, we can feel it, and we can hear it.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
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• If you're making music, you must want to turn other people on to it, whether you're number one in the charts or number 60. I don't know, that's a commercial thing, but just the fact that other people like you... there's no point in making music, otherwise. Otherwise, you might as well make it in your bedroom and leave it there.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
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• Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

  

  Matthew Nable
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