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.
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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.
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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.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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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.
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I just want to be rich and famous.
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That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression.
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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.
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I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sometimes who is going to be taking care of all of my kids on any given day is more complicated than any trade agreement.
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The most difficult owner for me was the late George Marshall of Washington.
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I don't want to work just for the sake of working. Generally, if a good script comes in, I read it, and if it appeals to me, it appeals to me. And it doesn't have to be anything - it doesn't have to be the main character; it doesn't have to be a huge part.
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I have written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet.
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I do think that deciding between a particular discovery and a technological breakthrough - I would always think the impact is probably much larger for the technological breakthrough.
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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.
