Matthew Rhys Quotes
When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
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I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
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I try to keep my professional life and my actual kid social life separate.
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There are places that I've always wanted to go. First I went to Africa, and when I was there I realized there were places in Africa I really to wanted to visit: The Congo, West Africa, Mombassa. I wanted to see the deep, dark, outlandish places.
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We can't just pay attention to women who look fantastic in a photograph, because there are a lot of people that have fantastic things to say that don't look like 25-year-old white models.
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Abstract sympathy with the working class as an economic entity is easy, but the feeling can vanish on contact with actual members of the group, who often arrive with disturbing beliefs and powerful resentments - who might not sound or look like people urban progressives want to know.
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When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent.
