"I'm very much a jobbing actor who's still trying to find a place to rent down the road."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Matthew William Goode

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“I'm old enough, by a long shot, to remember going to the library and spending days researching. If I was looking for a line from a poem or something else I needed, that would be the trip I would have to take.”
“Judge: And what is your occupation in general? Brodsky: Poet, poet-translator. Judge: And who recognized you to be a poet? Who put you in the ranks of poet? Brodsky: No one. And who put me in the ranks of humanity? Judge: Did you study it?...How to be a poet? Did you attempt to finish an insitute of higher learning...where they prepare...teach Brodsky: I did not think that it is given to one by education. Judge: By what then? Brodsky: I think that it is from God.”
“There's a tendency for adults to label the math that they can do (such as identifying patterns, choosing between competing offers in a supermarket, and challenging statistics published by the government) as "common sense" and labeling everything they can't do as "math" - so that being bad at math becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
“Music is so powerful to me. I had my IPod and headphones, and my sad playlist. I kind of ventured off for just a little bit to get into the scene.”
“Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns.”
“Alas, if worth be based on beauty, Snow White has surpassed you, cutie.”

Source : James Finn Garner (2011). “Politically Correct Bedtime Stories”, p.30, Souvenir Press
“Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.”
“Someone said to me... 'A criticism is just a really bad way of making a request. So why don't you just make the request? Why don't you just say, Could we work out this thing that makes me feel this way?'”

Source : "How Can I Help My 10-Year-Old Be More Independent?" by Susan Stiffelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 2, 2013.

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