Matthew Prior Quotes
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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On my teams, as a guy who grew up hunting and fishing, I was in the minority in terms of music and lifestyle. I became good friends with people who listened to R&B and rap. But it wasn't just an issue of being around it - I was naturally drawn to it right off the bat.
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Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'
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When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.
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Directors only have instinct to work out of, because there is no formula. Formulas don't work. Actually, if you follow a formula, you will probably end up with a bad movie.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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I worked in a restaurant and in a nightclub cloakroom.
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You were born as the one you are.
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The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that there is a living world of each color and I express these worlds.
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Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!
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The great thing for me about 'The Resurrection of Gavin Stone' is it's a throwback to the old fashioned Hollywood movie that you can watch with your family, has a message, and is funny and entertaining. They didn't call them faith-based movies; they just called them good movies.
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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.
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I was born with this heart condition, but it's never affected me – I've been able to play every sport I wanted to, and the doctors were amazed.
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Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.
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I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.
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Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.
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Boxing is a small world where the same thing that goes on, goes on in corporate America.
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I'm the guy on the corner that is slightly peculiar but fun and funky.
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The ends must justify the means.
