Matthew Vaughn Quotes
I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
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You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.
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One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
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Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.
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Children who have an education grow up to lead healthier lives - earn higher income, take better care of their families, contribute to their economies.
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I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
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When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd have in trying to get a photo with an artist or get a ticket stub signed. I guess, to me, that's the ultimate thing – to know that what you've done is important enough to other people that they want to take a picture with you.
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Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
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We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.
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The live setting is always better for me. I usually thrive at live. I feel like having a band behind me and being able to interact with the crowd helps boost my energy up.
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
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We all get self-centered.
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It was extremely difficult to suppress my emotions, because my character in' A Girl at My Door' goes through so many infuriating situations. It was a lonely process having to portray someone that acts tough but is deeply hurting inside and is unable to express that.
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The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.
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Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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Once we accept violence as an adaptation, it makes sense that its expression is calibrated to the environment. The same individual will behave differently if he comes of age in Detroit, Mich., versus Windsor, Ontario; in New York in the 1980s versus New York now; in a culture of honor versus a culture of dignity.
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I'mma just do me, when it feel right.
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I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.
