Matthew Reilly Quotes
I think 'The Time Traveler's Wife' is one of the most brilliantly marketed books I have ever seen.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
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Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.
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You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
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I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and pain. They forget that these are humans who are in an abnormal situation.
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I design for myself and the first question I ask is, 'Would I wear it?'
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I think my films kind of walk this line that I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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If, in schools, we keep teaching that history is divided into American history and Chinese history and Russian history and Australian history, we're teaching kids that they are divided into tribes. And we're failing to teach them that we also, as human beings, share problems that we need to work together with.
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In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
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I think 'The Time Traveler's Wife' is one of the most brilliantly marketed books I have ever seen.
