There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.
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See, ‘A Time to Kill’ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.
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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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I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.
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If you want your hair to be thicker, cut it when the moon is about to be full – a heavy, full, waxing moon. Do not cut it when the moon’s waning.
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I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely.
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There’s a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps.
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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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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.
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Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.
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I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.
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We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
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When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention.
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I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it’s OK for me to return home.
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Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.
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I’d rather go around in a good pair of jeans that you don’t wash every day, because they get more and more comfortable.
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