Matthew Prior Quotes
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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.
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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.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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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.
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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.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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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.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have been really lucky in my career, with the diversity of it. I get to play really complex people.
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I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.
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There are some artists that don't like working with other females, which is fine. They have their own thing. I personally love being surrounded by other females.
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If you want to trick someone with a photograph, there are lots of easy ways to do it. You don't need Photoshop. You don't need sophisticated digital photo-manipulation. You don't need a computer. All you need to do is change the caption.
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One think that you notice about anyone that gets up on stage is that they don't really have a lot of self-awareness. It's kind of a trait that performers don't have because you just kinda just have to let go and do whatever you want to do on stage.
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Is there a higher energy? I would say yes, even if the energy is collective. Even if it's kind of Jungian, or the whole thing is collective consciousness, that may be God as far as I'm concerned. So is there an energy that's higher than mine? Yes. But would I claim it as God? I would say no.
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Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.
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Till their own dreams at length decive 'em,And oft repeating, they believe 'em.
