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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My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.
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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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It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.
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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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Irvin Kershner, no matter what anyone says, has done some great work. 'Eyes of Laura Mars' is an incredible movie.
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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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When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.
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All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested.
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What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.
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I internalize everything, keep everything inside. I'm not used to spilling my guts, and when you have to do that on film to make a point, it's hard. It's rough. I don't think it's as easy as people think.
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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.
