Matthew Reilly Quotes
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I would love to do some theater.
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There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
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I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.
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Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
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For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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A big reason I'd spent my career as a writer and not a public speaker is that I am a person who refines my worldview in a silent room, waiting for my thoughts to arrange themselves on the screen before me.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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We appreciate size, but only if it is robust growth. Just to be big is not a target.
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All is flux, nothing is stationary.
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I like talky scenes.
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There are parallels between the 1960s and now, because during the 1960s, people were being slaughtered, their lives were being taken, there was violence, greed, drugs were rising - just all of this. And my uncle was saying, you've got to come back to faith, hope and love. Now, you get the translation and say faith, hope and charity - faith, hope and love.
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Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
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I'm very good at plot.
