Matthew Williamson Quotes
My parents knew there was no point in pushing the football thing. I hated the boots.
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I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'
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I got no hate in me.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
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I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but I think it's something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close relationships with the girls you go to school with. But it is a strange thing to live in an environment which is solely female.
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'Stay With Me,' for me, is my own personal anthem to the 'walk of shame...' that we've all gone through. It's the feeling after a one-night stand of not wanting that person to leave, even if you don't love them and don't even like them. It's about having that body next to you.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.
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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
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Because of my job, I get a lot of opportunity to grab a few days here and there in many cool cities for press commitments, magazine shoots and premieres - Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, Paris, Stockholm, New York, Berlin. I always try to get to a gallery or museum if there's time.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I really looked up to Grace Kelly when I was growing up. I thought she was just so beautiful and elegant. I wanted to grow up to be like her.
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I have real good parents. They poor. They have regular, poor jobs and what not. They real good people and what not; I was just raised in a bad society.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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My parents knew there was no point in pushing the football thing. I hated the boots.
