Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYMy wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.
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There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.
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Or people say, ‘Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.’ The work is to make it look effortless. That’s the hard part.
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You do that and you go through some withdrawals in the beginning. You start thinking, ‘Oh, do I need to do this? Do I need to do that?’ You forget that we were doing just fine with the payphone.
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Life is a series of commas, not periods.
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Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.
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Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.
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I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.
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I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely.
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I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities.
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I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.
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I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art.
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We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
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I love good film, whether it’s an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren’t necessarily eccentric ones but they’re the more specific ones.
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There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I’m trying to pull out of the ground that doesn’t want to come out? I know I’ll win.
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To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.
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