Matthew Prior Quotes

Till their own dreams at length decive 'em,And oft repeating, they believe 'em.

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• My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Life
  • Long
  • Space

• The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • You
  • Media
  • Lazy

• Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Long
  • Mind
  • King

• If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Complain

• I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Work
  • Thought

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

  

  Mae West
  • Long
  • Laws
  • Now And Then

• A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

  

  Karl Kraus
  • World
  • Heart
  • Man

• I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Book
  • Point
  • Where

• I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Team
  • Mean
  • Marvel

• There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understand each other, appreciate each other, help each other.

  

  Jack Ma
  • World
  • Together
  • Help

• I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Football
  • Sports
  • Baseball

• When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Fear
  • Model

• I have been really lucky in my career, with the diversity of it. I get to play really complex people.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • People
  • Career
  • Diversity

• I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Success
  • Courage
  • Patience

• The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Children
  • Faces
  • Animals

• I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Work
  • Done
  • Most

• I signed a contract to fight at UFC 187, so I'm going to fight at UFC 187, whoever it is against. It's the same thing.

  

  Donald Cerrone

• There is also somehow the idea that this gay thing is all just about indulgence in carnal pleasure. When I was twenty and felt that nobody could know I was gay, I was having sex with strangers in public parks. I don't think it was evil exactly, but it wasn't so great either. There was nobody particularly benefiting from it, except, I suppose, to the extent that it gave some pleasure to me and perhaps whomever I was with.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Evil

• When I talk about democratic socialist, I'm not looking at Venezuela. I'm not looking at Cuba. I'm looking at countries like Denmark and Sweden.

  

  Bernie Sanders

• You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Important

• There are never any absolutes in the fashion business: one day you may like black, and the next day you like colour. I think it's a good lesson that we should never believe too much in any one thing - because the next day it's out, and if we're stuck to it, we're out, too.

  

  Mario Testino
  • Good
  • Believe
  • May

• Till their own dreams at length decive 'em,And oft repeating, they believe 'em.

  

  Matthew Prior
  • Believe