"I don't think I know enough about acting to direct. You need to be a slight megalomaniac, not where you want to take over the world, but where you want to make every single decision and the buck stops with you. It's an awful lot of stress."

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

Matthew William Goode

#Stress Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Decision Quotes

“Falling in love with a house or a car or a pair of shoes, it was a dead end. You save your love for the things that can love you back.”

Source : David Wong (2012). “This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It”, p.226, Macmillan
“Truth does not belong to an individual.”
“In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended musical performances, and only two adults other than my teachers who spoke without embarrassment of poetry and literature â€” both of these being women. As far as I can recall, I never heard a man refer to a good or a great book. I knew no one who had mastered, or even studied, another language from choice. And our articulate, conscious life proceeded without acknowledgement of the preceding civilisations which had produced it.”
“A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.”
“I have always been a night person. When the sun goes down, my spirits rise. I'm more alert, quicker, more in tune with the rhythms of the world.”

Source : Jerri Nielsen, Maryanne Vollers (2002). “Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole”, Miramax Books
“When you can turn people on their head and shake them and no money falls out, then you know God's saying, "Move on, son."”
“Take it from someone who's read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: madden horsemen fueled by lethal jet-black coffee-mud.”
“I stand four-square for reason, and object to what seems to me to be irrationality, whatever the source. If you are on my side in this, I must warn you that the army of the night has the advantage of overwhelming numbers, and, by its very nature, is immune to reason, so that it is entirely unlikely that you and I can win out. We will always remain a tiny and probably hopeless minority, but let us never tire of presenting our view, and of fighting the good fight for the right.”

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