Matthew Williamson Quotes
I got my fair share of stick. But I surrounded myself with fabulous girls, and they all loved me because I made them clothes. I remember making them all leopard print tops and tartan skirts for a party we went to once. It's scary to think about it now, actually.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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Your reader is interested in a guileless, fresh, first-time-we-talked-about-it way. What a great liberation that is. And teenagers, if you respect them, will follow you a lot further than adults will, without fear of being a genre that they may not like or have been told not to like. They just want a story.
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I love reading books that can break my heart.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
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Our military men and women are our greatest national treasure. They should be safeguarded as such upon their return.
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I sort of fall apart in terms of stamina after about 25 minutes!
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In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.
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Being a musician, it's my job to be real and be true to whoever I am. Hopefully that will inspire other people. I hope it inspires people to be themselves and be comfortable in your own skin.
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I lost my confidence.
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If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.
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You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.
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Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?
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He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
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I'm not smart. I try to observe. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.
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Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.
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The delusion of having wisdom creates the dangerous delusion of having power, leading to disaster.
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A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.
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I got my fair share of stick. But I surrounded myself with fabulous girls, and they all loved me because I made them clothes. I remember making them all leopard print tops and tartan skirts for a party we went to once. It's scary to think about it now, actually.
