Matthew Mercer Quotes

Society, in general, has taught for many generations that when you reach a certain age, you have to learn to stop playing.

Matthew Mercer

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It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film.

John Boorman

PeopleThinkEasyYouManipulation

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

FreedomPowerTrustMenManFree

Other people have often had more faith in me than I had in myself - I never thought I could pull off Roberta Muldoon in 'The World According to Garp,' or 'Of Mice and Men's' Lennie as one of my first acting jobs.

John Lithgow

FaithMyselfMenPeopleMeWorld

With Freebass, there were no rules, really. It was all rather chaotic. Obviously, Hooky was playing the high end stuff, which he always does; Mani was doing the bottom end, and I thought I'd go midway and meet everyone in the middle.

Andy Rourke

ThoughtEndDoingRulesGoMeet

Everybody has different issues, good or bad, that they carry with them on the court. It affects you. And for me, it affected me to where sometimes I would be overly aggressive and, in other ways, it would affect people to where they can't perform on the court.

Metta World Peace

GoodPeopleMeYouBadSometimes

Sampling is very important for me. It's the backbone of hip-hop.

Statik Selektah

MeImportantHip-HopBackboneVery

There comes a point when you have to be more than an actor, and doing something else that means a lot to me has actually made me a stronger actor. It's stimulated something else in my brain and heart.

Rory O'Malley

HeartMeBrainDoingStrongerYou

There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process.

Mike Johanns

SupportProcessDecisionsThoughtful

My first show in high school was 'The Music Man.' I was a junior. I played Harold Hill. I did the role at the University of Miami, too. I do love that musical. To do it in high school and college and then to do it professionally - I mean, come on!

Joshua Henry

LoveMusicManSchoolCollegeMiami

I got a script sent to me at this office and I got a call from a woman - Universal's doing a snowboarding movie. I'm not in it yet, but I'm supposed to meet with the director in New York soon. I'm waiting to hear back from them.

Jason Mewes

WomanNew YorkWaitingMeDoingNew

We continually hear from our engaged customer base that Shutterstock's content is a true differentiator, given not only the size of the library but also the quality and diversity of the images we offer.

Jon Oringer

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I hate turbulence in life, but also on planes.

Christopher Plummer

LifeHateTurbulencePlanesAlso

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