William Mathews Quotes

What a man does is the real test of what a man is.

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• It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Important
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• I don't like to just talk about nothing, or less than nothing. If it's something interesting, I'm fine with it, but, 'Hey, Zack, how is your day?' People ask that, and somebody actually tells them what happened in their day? I don't have any real interest in that.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • People
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  • Interesting

• Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your head against the wall repeatedly until you get it right.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Real
  • Practice

• Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working people of all colors, of all beliefs, of all national origins.

  

  Harry Bridges
  • People
  • Real
  • Power

• Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • Man
  • Thoughts

• I certainly wasn't a fan of Thatcher's politics. People liked to label us as children of Thatcher. What nonsense. The real children of Thatcher came in the 1990s, and had no interest in politics. The Oasis, Britpop scene.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
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  • Children
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• I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

  

  Damien Hirst
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  • Think
  • Most

• I like to think that I'm not as ominous in real life.

  

  Daniel Dae Kim
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  • Think

• We have allowed the sexual debate to be defined by women, and that's not right. Men must speak, and speak in their own voices, not voices coerced by feminist moralists.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Feminist

• Once emotions are set in motion, and men pitted against men along these unspoken lines, you will have the kind of warfare that will split the nation from top to bottom and undo Malaysia. Everybody knows it. I don't have to say it. It is the unspoken word!

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Men

• To those who oppose war, I ask: If not now, when? How many more corpses are necessary before this country should take action?

  

  Leonard Peikoff
  • Country
  • War
  • Action

• I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • God
  • Men
  • Truth

• You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

  

  Bodhidharma
  • Long
  • Mind
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• Fleabag knows men and women are equal and should be treated as such, but what she's confused about - and what I was confused about - was the idea that wanting bigger boobs doesn't mean you don't want equal rights.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
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  • Women
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• I'm not going to allow myself to second-guess projects. I'm just going to do the ones that I fully love and believe in - that's a real privilege.

  

  Joel Edgerton
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• 'X-Men: First Class' was fun.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Men
  • Fun

• Many people, men in particular, just can't not be active. I guess our minds demand that we seek other challenges.

  

  Jerry West
  • People
  • Men

• The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
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  • Success
  • Quality

• There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies.

  

  Martin McDonagh
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  • Art

• Actors are very demanding because they have nowhere to hide. If I write a scene, it doesn't turn out very well, I don't ever have to show it to anyone; when you turn the camera on, or when you walk on stage, they have to feel like what's happening is real.

  

  Kenneth Lonergan
  • Real

• What I think you are going to see is with DACA being gone, it gets rid of the magnet of drawing people over here, thinking they are going to come in and get amnesty.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Drawing

• It's a wonderful thing to make work that is unadorned either by context, framing or label, that can exist in the changing conditions of light, weather, wind.

  

  Antony Gormley
  • Work
  • Light
  • Wind

• What a man does is the real test of what a man is.

  

  William Mathews
  • Men
  • Real
  • Action