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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This is a strange game.
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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 did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
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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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For some reason, being on time in this industry can be a lost art form, especially for actors! It's important to remember that other people are always waiting for you on set, and it's really unfair to make them wait.
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Having consulted widely among colleagues, I have concluded that the unity of the Party and the prospects of victory in a General Election would be better served if I stood down to enable Cabinet colleagues to enter the ballot for the leadership. I should like to thank all those in Cabinet and outside who have given me such dedicated support.
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I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.
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We'd be nowhere without our looks.
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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.
