William Mathews Quotes
As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.
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Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.
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My kind of, like, life goal is to help train students to be good people as well as good scientists. That would be my dream.
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The star of 'Narcos' and the director and creator of 'Narcos' are both Brazilian superstars. So Brazil has received 'Narcos' particularly well as it's been well-received around the world.
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Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
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I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
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No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
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I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My father was a bookmaker, so he had access to all those nightclubs, and he was smitten by certain artists, and we would go see them. We'd see comics like Sid Caesar and Milton Berle - those kind of artists - many of whom I worked with later in my life.
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Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.
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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.
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People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.
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Seventy-five percent of women who smoke would like to quit, and yet only two to three percent quit every year... It's significant because we can help women quit smoking.
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Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.
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We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start running out. So you can pick and choose and find something to energise you.
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See failures as learning experiences, not character faults.
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As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.
