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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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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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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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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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We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
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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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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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Private problems don't constitute an excuse for bad manners.
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As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.
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Thankfully, I found athletics. My mum didn't like it at first, but the funny thing is that, now, she's the biggest athletics fan out there. She's a real expert, and she's got all the heptathlon books.
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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.
