Matthias Schoenaerts Quotes
I like underdogs, I like anti-heroes - people that have a hard time overcoming things in life.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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There was no Groundlings or Upright Citizens Brigade where I was from. Looking back on it, I was trying to do sketch comedy in my stand-up, which is still kind of what I am doing now. To go full-circle here, it's kind of like one-man sketch.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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I'm unemployable in any other capacity.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.
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When I look at 'Napoleon Dynamite's style I'm reminded of how I spoke when I was an eight-year-old boy. It was just like capturing the essence of, 'Duh!' It was just like the stuff that I would say when I was like eight, nine, ten years old.
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Please, please, please - I would love to do some comedy. Once you have a reputation for one thing - in my case, crying and dying - you are typecast.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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I like underdogs, I like anti-heroes - people that have a hard time overcoming things in life.
