I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin’ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.
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My 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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Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.
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I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.
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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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I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day’s schedule and be ready for any off-road detour.
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I’ve read a lot of really great characters in some really crappy stories, where I said, like, ‘Boy I could shine here, but the story sucks.’ I don’t want to be part of that.
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You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.
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You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.
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I was raised on, ‘You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.’
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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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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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We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.
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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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Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.
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Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.
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