Matthew Settle Quotes
I'm secretly a clown, or maybe it's not much of a secret! I'm a little putzo, as the Italians say - a little bit loopy.
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I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.
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Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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I respect Lady Gaga very much.
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I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.
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I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
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'The Big Chill' had a bunch of really talented actors, a great soundtrack, and the college connections that the characters shared. It's one of those movies I glean something different from every time I watch it.
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The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.
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Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
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I love seeing when actors go from one genre to the next because I feel like most of them can pull it off.
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I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.
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Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.
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The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
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If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
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As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.
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My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
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In Miss Catherine Middleton we have the faintest, intoxicating glimmer of a New Age Cinderella story.
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My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life.
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What matters in any campaign is that you have a strategic core that makes the judgements, decides the strategy, and can deliver.
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I'll never forget working to get my college, Wayne State University, to divest from the government in South Africa. This was the beginning of my activism, and the fight for social and economic justice has been a constant thread in my life.
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Wasting away again in Margaritaville, searching for my lost shaker of salt.
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American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going.
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I'm secretly a clown, or maybe it's not much of a secret! I'm a little putzo, as the Italians say - a little bit loopy.
