Matthew Rhys Quotes
I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.
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People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.
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You don't become the leading spinner of the team by just talking. You have to perform well consistently over a long period of time. I have bowled well and won games for India. That is why I am the No. 1 spinner. Every time I have taken the field, I have given my 100%.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
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I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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Religion is so much more than the god you pray to. The religion that you associate with, it's culture, it is family, it is background. That is something that I have always grown up with.
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When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!
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The Turkish, Arab and Chinese nationalists who built new nation-states out of the ruins of old empires scorned their old, decrepit rulers as much as they did the foreign imperialists who imposed free trade through gunboats.
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With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.
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When you get as old as I am, you kind of believe there's nothing new under the sun, but there's always a fresh way of looking at something. That's why I love working with young people. They remind you of things you used to know and have since forgotten.
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It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.
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My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.
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This is the essence of the problem. To Dan Rather and to a lot of other powerful members of the chattering class, that which is right of center is conservative. That which is left of center is middle of the road. No wonder they can't recognize their own bias.
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I think they'd be silly not to bring us back.
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The divorce of poetry and music was first reflected by the printed page. (p. 227)
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
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I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.
