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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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
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...We should try to link our personal lives with the cause for which we struggle, with the cause of building communism.
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A nanny is a woman who lives in an apartment, but the apartment is not her own. She raises children, teaches them how to walk, how to speak; she gives them food - but these children are not her children. So she is in a very ambiguous place.
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They talk most who have the least to say.
