Matthew Stover Quotes
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I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
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I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
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Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
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I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.
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When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable by the new devices.
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One day, I want to make a PG film.
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When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really serving?
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I worked with a guy, I can't think of his name, him and his wife, and one of them had a saxophone and the other played drums. It wasn't a regular job but I did a few gigs around home with them.
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First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
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The Dalai Lama is just a temporal leader of Tibet.
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My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.
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All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.
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One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds.
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Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
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Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.
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A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.
