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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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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I'm not very good at strategizing.
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In short, the time has come for us as American and Iranian citizens to apply our mutual energy, intellect, and goodwill toward strengthening relations between our two countries, as their destinies are intertwined.
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We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.
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They talk most who have the least to say.
