Matthew Prior Quotes
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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Being surrounded by love and people that care about your heart is the dream. That's what I would like on my last day.
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The image of Ireland is projected as a male image in the acting world, similar to the way that the word of Ireland is male dominated.
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Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.
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God has given us all wonderful unique gifts and talents to use to glorify and celebrate Him.
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Writing bores me so.
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I'll be totally honest in that I feel tremendously lucky that I am offered incredible jobs all the time to direct, but the problem that I have just personally is that there are only so many years in my life to dedicate to certain projects.
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Of course, the young male demographic has always been the target demographic for 'Star Trek,' the men ageing fifteen to about twenty-five or thirty, a very tough market to appeal to.
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I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no one wants to play himself.
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Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.
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If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death.
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Oh, wad some power the giftie gie usTo see oursel's as ithers see us!It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion.
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The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities.
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Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd.
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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
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To me, democratic socialism means democracy. It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people in the country.
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Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable.
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In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation.
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I like my kind of innate and natural ability in the pocket, and ability of anticipation, and all that stuff that's important when it comes to playing quarterback.
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Well, art has to be sexy.
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All jargon of the schools.
