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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We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.
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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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If I spend 10 days at home, I'll be dying to get back to the set. I love the thrill of a good dialogue, the buzz of shooting.
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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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Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken.
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I am still yours, Allie, my queen, my timeless beauty. You are, and always have been, the best thing in my life.
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I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course.
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It is very important for an actor or actress to look around at everything and everyone and never forget about real life.
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I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
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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.
