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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I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties.
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Investment decisions and personal decisions don't wait for the picture to be clarified.
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I think one of the greatest losses to humanity was the domination of women. I think every religious system has found ways to be kind to them in a kind of subordinate way. Very patronizing, very colonial. But if you start looking at the fabric of society, even religious systems, they would fall apart if it wasn't for the embedded ability of the women who are involved.
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For Jung, the 'psychic world' (i.e. the world of the mind) was an independent reality, and it was possible to travel there and make the acquaintance of its inhabitants.
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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.
