Matthew Prior Quotes
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Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself.
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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It's absolutely critical that we not only provide support from cradle to career in the education system but also the wraparound services.
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My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There was a responsibility on my shoulders to run the household. It was my duty as the eldest child in the house.
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You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one.
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I pride myself on definitely being more than a dunker.
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We are all born and someday we'll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. Our aloneness in this world is, maybe not anymore, a thing to mourn.
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To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.
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All you need is a bad angle and suddenly you're 30 pounds overweight.
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When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance.
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My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.
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My favourite colours have always been '60s Miami-inspired gold and peach - feminine but not too girlie.
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I am so appreciative of all the attention I've gotten, especially since I don't ever consider myself anything more than a fan.
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The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
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I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.
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You wear nothing but you wear it so well.
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At rehearsals, I began conducting the band, counting them in without thinking. I guess it came from watching salsa legends like my uncle and Tito Puente, who was very much the leader of his band on stage.
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Companies like Papa John's are largely a collection of small independent businesses.
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We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. That's what people forget.... They invented LSD to control people and what they did was give us freedom.
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They talk most who have the least to say.
