William Matthews Quotes
What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
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Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
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Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action.
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The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
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If, in this country, a simple majority of people can start stripping away the rights of a protected class in the minority, that's a pretty alarming thing.
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I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
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The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.
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I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.
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I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain.
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'When the root of your wrong is not from the heart, your wrong will make you to run to God the more.'
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Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.
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I would have loved to do 'Alice in Wonderland.' Being a 'Bond' girl would always be fun. We had a lot of action in 'Eclipse' and I'd definitely like to continue down the action road. I want to do a romantic period piece, but those are really hard to get made because they're very expensive and there's not a huge demographic.
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I think about Twitter as the friend that's always awake. It's why I tweet so much.
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I own two beautiful homes, and I'm always half-expecting the cops to pull in, seize me with firm compassion, and escort me out.
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What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?
