Matthew Settle Quotes
I went to theater school but never really got the chance to do theater, and it's always been a dream of mine.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
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Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.
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I've been living the American Dream for over 25 years - just being able to do what I do, be creative, and make money out of it. It's incredible.
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I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again.
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My dream had always just been to do my work well, fall in love and build a life for myself.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and just go out far on a literary limb with completely implausible things that relied completely on voice and humor. And what saved me is realizing that I couldn't do that very well.
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I went to theater school but never really got the chance to do theater, and it's always been a dream of mine.
