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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I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.
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But the blessing Christ promised, the blessing of great reward, is a reward of grace. The blessing is promised even though it is not earned. Augustine said it this way: Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts.
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I think that it is always hard to find two voices that fit together well.
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We need to love people with our deeds AND our words because sharing the Good News is a process, not just an event.
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I think most people who decide to become a musician have to be prepared for some degree of struggle. It makes the art better if you go through some struggles. To be an artist, in any form, you have to develop some sense of compassion and empathy - it's an important quality for everyone to have, on a human level. But I think, as part of our job, you have to be able to do that, so suffering, tends - if you allow it - to let you look on the bright side. It will help with those senses.
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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.
