Matthew Prior Quotes
Our hopes, like towering falcons, aimAt objects in an airy height;The little pleasure of the gameIs from afar to view the flight.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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The first two or three movies I did, I'd be around famous co-stars and totally pretend like I didn't care, but inside, I was shaking. I've been weaning myself off that.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.
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No days off. I'm a workaholic.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.
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Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court – that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking and not enough training. I couldn't put in my usual offseason work routine. I think that all caught up to me, with my Achilles problems.
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God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
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The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan.
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I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have any boyfriends in high school because I was a nerd. I was a geek.
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I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college.
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After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers.
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Me in my music and onstage – that's me without any fears of judgement; that's me when I'm shining.
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The moment we realize that the only things we can intelligibly value are actual and potential changes in the experience of conscious beings, we can think about a landscape of such changes - where the peaks correspond to the greatest possible well-being and the valleys correspond to the lowest depths of suffering.
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If you look at my bookings, they've gone down each season. That's something I'm trying to keep improving. On the pitch you don't want any silly bookings.
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In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.
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I never had a massive desire to buy clothes. I liked to customise the clothes I already had or was given when I was younger. If I didn't like them that much, I made them how I wanted them to be.
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The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.
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Our hopes, like towering falcons, aimAt objects in an airy height;The little pleasure of the gameIs from afar to view the flight.
