Dan Mathews Quotes
Back in the eighties, people thought a vegan was someone from Vegas. It's a different world now and I feel lucky to have been a part of the revolution, both for animal rights and gay rights.
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I have a very intimate knowledge of the world of the mentally ill and of life inside of, especially, public hospitals and the way people are treated in there and the way that they try to survive in there.
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We care about margins.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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If people hate me they hate me.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
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I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
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My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
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You just can't bifurcate bitcoin currency from the technology. Bitcoin will always need a monetary base.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three years before Martin Luther King was killed, and I think that history of civil action was something that I had in my blood.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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I didn't even know what it was when I started. But I was lucky. I found it at 16. Most people don't discover decathlon until they're 21 or 22.
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I'm not good at multi-tasking.
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I have problems with YouTube and things like that, when you catch it mid production. If I'm doing a show and I'm working on a bit and someone's there with a phone, they record it and put it online - it's not the finished product.
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I love to sew. But when it's something that's being repetitive over and over and over again, it takes a toll.
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There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.
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I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.
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One of my problems with religion is that it's limiting in so many ways. I remember the first time I took a humanities class, I thought, I can't believe this. This is fantastic. This is what I want my life to be. When I was a young person, I did a lot of dabbling in Eastern religions, and it was very satisfying in some ways, but there's that limitation always, which I find myself bridling against.
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Back in the eighties, people thought a vegan was someone from Vegas. It's a different world now and I feel lucky to have been a part of the revolution, both for animal rights and gay rights.
