One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven't seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, it's a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I'm in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don't feel like you don't know where I've been.
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MATT MCGORRY When you're a guest star on a movie or a TV show, I always say it's like being invited to a ... ATO ESSANDOH I really woke up one morning and said, you know, 'I haven't seen a good film about the Ameri... IRWIN WINKLER When you see 'Lord of the Rings,' you want to feel like you've been dropped into it and ... HOWARD SHORE For a long time, I thought when you do a box set, you're giving up; you're saying, 'OK, ... BOB SEGER Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because i... JAY-Z I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you... BEN STILLER I feel like every role you take, there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it. ... MILA KUNIS If you got a dope girl, there's going to be people that want her. But I don't know, I've... LANCE GROSS If you don't know your worth, if you don't know your value, if you don't know how fantab... 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NATE LOWMAN I've been a vegetarian for so long, I forgot how much I missed meat. You know you don't real... BRITTANY DANIEL The L.A. weather is a lot like Taiwan's, where you don't observe four seasons, so the years ... ANG LEE Don't ever humiliate a man. If you're gonna have to dress him out, you take him aside and do... RIP TORN I don't care how inventive you are; once you introduce strings into the ensemble for a horror fi... CHRISTOPHER YOUNG I'm into clothes, but in a way that's related to wanting to walk into a film noir movie. You... MAUREEN DOWD You can't delete racism. It's like a cigarette. You can't stop smoking if you don't ... MARIO BALOTELLI Anything that exists on the human palette is, from my point of view, fair game for artists to portra... TOBIN BELL Art is what can't be proven mathematically, right, it's where science ends. It's the par... JIM MCKELVEY Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattract... JOEL OSTEEN To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If yo... BENNY GOODMAN I've had a lot of experience in independent film, and about how to choose. You've got to be ... ETHAN HAWKE I haven't seen it this busy since I've been an IndyCar driver. So I think that's a great... DAN WHELDON I think that Valentine's Day is only as good as you want it to be. You know, I don't think i... PRINCE ROYCE I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tan... BOB EHRLICH I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads y... TIM MCGRAW In a play, you know where you start and end and all the stops you have to do, but in television, you... CAITLIN FITZGERALD I have a lot of disrespect for people who cheat. I feel like if you're in a position in a relati... AVAN JOGIA I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do ... 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I go out when I feel I have to for work or if there... KEITH SWEAT I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the... ASHWIN SANGHI Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because i... JAY-Z I love soup 'cause I don't like to cook. It's so easy to prepare, and it fills you up an... CARRIE ANN INABA I don't want to stand in front of a whole lot of fakeys. If I'm going to meet someone and sa... DAMIEN RICE I remember when I was 11, I told my mom, 'One day I'm going to buy you a house.' And she... WILL.I.AM I think I'm a nervous laugher. Like, when you're in a situation that you don't know what... JACK MCBRAYER I'm not one of these actresses like, 'Okay, where's the camera? Is it here? Is it here?&... HALLE BERRY Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on... SAMUEL BECKETT Sometimes you just don't feel the same everyday, it doesn't matter what you do, but when you... DAVID ORTIZ Sometimes you're not always on or at your best, especially during auditions. So if you go in and... JACK HUSTON I don't think I've had love at first sight. But, I've definitely had moments where I'... JOSH HUTCHERSON The other day I got a text from a boy, but it wasn't hot. I mean, if you're going to text me... CHLOE SEVIGNY If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to clas... BEBE NEUWIRTH You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons fro... ALAN ALDA You have a right to say no. Most of us have very weak and flaccid 'no' muscles. We feel guil... IYANLA VANZANT I've been making music for a long time, but I've been waiting to do it right, because I don&... EVAN ROSS There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you ... BERNHARD SCHLINK I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a... EMILE HIRSCH
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In patient, deep disdain.
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Yet let me say that she was fair;
And they, that lovely face... MATTHEW ARNOLD Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high,
The foliaged marble forest where ye lie,
Hush, ye wi... MATTHEW ARNOLD Now fitted the halter, now travers'd the cart,
And often took leave; but was loth to part. MATTHEW PRIOR Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death.
It dreams a rest, if not more deep,
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Ill and overworked, how fare you in this scene?
Brave... MATTHEW ARNOLD Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
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Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more.
... MATTHEW ARNOLD Others abide our question. Thou art free.
We ask and ask--Thou smilest and art still,
Out-top... MATTHEW ARNOLD Hark! ah, the nightingale--
The tawny-throated!
Hark from that moonlit cedar what a burst!
... MATTHEW ARNOLD On Sundays, at the matin-chime,
The Alpine peasants, two and three,
Climb up here to pray;
... MATTHEW ARNOLD Six years--six little years--six drops of time. MATTHEW ARNOLD They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that
he may live. MATTHEW ARNOLD This strange disease of modern life,
With its sick hurry, its divided aims. MATTHEW ARNOLD The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly
the notion of perfection as culture... MATTHEW ARNOLD Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's
troublesome. MATTHEW ARNOLD With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden an... MATTHEW ARNOLD What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls
a butterfly. MATTHEW ARNOLD Her cabin'd ample spirit,
It fluttered and fail'd for breath;
Tonight it doth inherit
Th... MATTHEW ARNOLD Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in
the world." MATTHEW ARNOLD Christianity is a source; no one supply of water and refreshment that comes from it can be called th... MATTHEW ARNOLD Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is
more) the passion for making them prev... MATTHEW ARNOLD The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and
light. MATTHEW ARNOLD One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent. MATTHEW ARNOLD Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life.
- Matthew Prior, MATTHEW PRIOR The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. MATTHEW ARNOLD Thy sum of duty let two words contain,
(O may they graven in thy heart remain!)
Be humble and ... MATTHEW PRIOR They talk most who have the least to say. MATTHEW PRIOR We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are
here for, I do not know. MATTHEW ARNOLD Saw life steadily and saw it whole. MATTHEW ARNOLD [Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular
names and impossible loyalties. MATTHEW ARNOLD The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. MATTHEW ARNOLD If Paris that brief flight allow,
My humble tomb explore!
It bears: "Eternity, be thou
... MATTHEW ARNOLD Women were created from the rib of man to be beside him, not from his head to top him, nor from his ... MATTHEW HENRY Do we believe housing is a right and that affordable housing is part of what it should mean to be an... MATTHEW DESMOND I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in ... MATTHEW DESMOND The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a fam... MATTHEW DESMOND