Matthew Stover Quotes

'Reasons are for peasants.'

Matthew Stover

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• I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Kind
  • Training
  • Yoga

• I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Career
  • Know
  • Independent

• I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Work
  • Freedom
  • Television

• We expect 'Narcos' will be an enormous success throughout everywhere in the world and maybe out-index in Latin America, given the Brazilian star and Brazilian director and heavy Latin American cast and that we shot the show entirely on location in Colombia.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • American
  • America

• It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Down
  • Entrepreneur
  • Finding

• Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.

  

  Garth Davis
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Reach

• You have to learn how to act a pop song. You have to find the balance of the pop from the pop song and the lyrical significance of the scene you are in.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Song
  • Learn
  • Balance

• You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Smile

• Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Write
  • Page

• But, actually, it is only Americans who say that our freedoms and prosperity are the reason foreigners hate us. If you ask the foreigners, they make it clear that it's America's bullying foreign policy they detest.

  

  Harry Browne
  • America
  • Hate
  • Bullying

• I want to go to film college to learn about the departments and how everything works. Then I'm going to start directing.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • College
  • Learn
  • Start

• The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Commandments
  • Suggestion

• I don't think college wrestling is in danger of extinction by any means. But I am concerned if one program drops.

  

  Dan Gable
  • College
  • Danger
  • Wrestling

• I have many deep thoughts in God, but I take my own measure, lest I perish by boasting... For I myself, though I am in chains and can comprehend heavenly things, the ranks of the angels and the hierarchy of principalities, things visible and invisible, for all this I am not yet a disciple.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Myself
  • Deep

• I only cook when I'm in love.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Love
  • Only
  • Cook

• I was born in Brooklyn and raised in Pittsburgh. I've never been to Iran, I don't speak the language, and, probably most important of all, my Iranian father left home when I was nine months old. That's the extent of my connection to Iran.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Important
  • Home
  • Father

• Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Feeling
  • Christmas
  • Season

• War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory and good fortune.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Good
  • War

• Disney is very much a child's theater - it's a very specific kind of acting. It's loud and boisterous with the goal to draw the attention of children and keep the attention of children, and it can kind of be cheesy and loud, and I had to unpack a lot of that, because as an actor, you kind of internalize, and you basically become a character.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Children
  • Character
  • Attention

• The masters thought they were loved until one day one of their favorites farted loudly while serving dinner and the next day was gone. The very first manifestation of the classless society is the disappearance of the servant class.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Society

• When someone died in the wilderness of frontier America, that person's physical remains were buried and the handcarts continued west, but the mourning survivors had hope for their loved one's eternal soul. However, when someone dies spiritually in the wilderness of sin, hope may be replaced by dread and fear for the loved one's eternal welfare.

  

  James E. Faust
  • May
  • America
  • Hope

• If you want to succeed, limit yourself.

  

  Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
  • Succeed
  • Limits

• 'Reasons are for peasants.'

  

  Matthew Stover