Matthew Rhys Quotes
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my friend, you're my wife, you're my girlfriend, you're my co-worker. This is your box, and you're not allowed to stray outside of it.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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I am healthy and happy.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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Will not be punished for your anger, your anger is the punishment.
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The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
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For me, now, working and children is it. There's nothing more to life.
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There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.
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I've suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It's why I went into acting.
