Matthew Reilly Quotes
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I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!
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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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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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In TV, you may think your character's one thing for two episodes, and then the third episode it could be something different.
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The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.
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To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
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Good writing does not come from verbiage but from words.
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I'm very good at plot.
