Dan Mathews Quotes
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I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
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A lot of people in film run around with a facade and use the right vocabulary and think they're mental giants, but it's very limiting.
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I just feel abstinence is the right thing to do. You don't want to ruin the experience of first sex with your wife, by comparing it to what you've done before.
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The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.
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The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.
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The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.
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Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.
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If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin. Forget failure. If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again!
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Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances.
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In my career, I thought I've never wanted to get anywhere in particular. I just wanted to work with interesting people on interesting projects.
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Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of freedom. God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor. External freedom is only an aspect of interior freedom. Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible. Religion and freedom are indivisible. Without freedom the soul dies. Without the soul there is no justification for freedom. Necessity is the only ultimate justification known to the mind.
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Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of the box as fast as I can.
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Grant me the grace to dissolve my negative thoughts about myself today. I breathe the grace of kindness into my heart. And may the grace of healing flow abundantly to every one in need of help.
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Never let the horns and woodwinds out of your sight; if you can hear them at all, they are too loud.
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What do you do when you don't know what to do? No wonder there are more suicides among psychiatrists than in any other profession.
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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
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Most writers, in my opinion, are dysfunctional derelicts.
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If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal ‘em. Take those hands.
