Matthew Vaughn Quotes
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.
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We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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I buy way too many books.
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And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.
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A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.
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I feel if theres one little thing I could do, its to make people realize: We are not worthless because we inhabit a country which is seen by Western eyes as a primitive, fundamentalist country only. . .I mean, we are a rich mixture of all sorts of forces as well, and our lives are very much worth living.
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I was a French Quarter rat from the moment I could get on a bus by myself and go to the French Quarter. I played music most of my early life and it just seemed that to entertain people was a really good thing to do.
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That was the truly horrifying thing about it: the sense of time as an enemy, to be fought tooth and nail--but there was so much of it; you killed an hour, but what good did that do when there were thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions more hours just waiting to take its place?
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You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.
