Matthew Reilly Quotes
I've been around long enough now that people who don't get into the outrageousness, the over-the-top stuff, they know not to buy my books anymore.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I never thought about money; otherwise, I would have left aged 26 when Real Madrid and Barcelona wanted me.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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When you had thugs and bullies and killers imposing their will on their own people or other people - if you don't respond to it, it just keeps coming because they're encouraged by their own success.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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If you had known me in middle school, I was definitely not what someone would think of as Brad Pitt. That was not me. I was kind of a dork.
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Comedy doesn't always have to come from a dark place.
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I'm very appreciative and humbled by the success of 'Prison Break.'
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'Amazing Grace' is not a book of interviews or onetime snapshots. It's a memoir of a journey that took me into a place I had never been and took over two years of my life. I don't think the people in this book would have said the things to me that they did if they perceived me as a reporter.
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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I've been around long enough now that people who don't get into the outrageousness, the over-the-top stuff, they know not to buy my books anymore.
