Matthew Rhys Quotes
I still dream about that one opportunity where the Welsh Rugby Union call me up and say, 'We need you.' There is an incredibly talented Welsh hooker called Matthew Rees, so maybe some incredible quirk of misfortune for him would mean I get called up instead.
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
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To work with children anywhere is just plain fun.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
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The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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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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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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People who die in an untimely way who are artists, somehow that validates their art, we feel. Why culturally we feel that, I don't know.
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I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.
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The Tea Party claims to want small government.
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My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that they're able to offer, then for a fee have them produce in a minute or two a beautiful finished copy in a dust jacket that you would pay for and take home.
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Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.
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I still dream about that one opportunity where the Welsh Rugby Union call me up and say, 'We need you.' There is an incredibly talented Welsh hooker called Matthew Rees, so maybe some incredible quirk of misfortune for him would mean I get called up instead.
