Matt Bellamy Quotes
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
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I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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Time was God's first creation.
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Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in power, it will have to change more.
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Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.
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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
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I don't find it easy dealing with people with drug problems. It helps if you're all taking drugs, all the same drugs.
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'SNL' is probably one of the premiere outlets that a musician can perform on that isn't obviously a music outlet.
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I prefer music that invents a universe.
