Quote by Matthew Macfadyen
The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that youre not in cont

The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that youre not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, youll make yourself unhappy, because life doesnt work like that. So much is luck. Its much better to let yourself off, to think, Theres nothing I can do. – Matthew Macfadyen

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As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really dont know whats happening sometimes next week, let alone this year. – Matthew Macfadyen

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I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then its fine. – Matthew Macfadyen

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I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it. – E. O. Wilson

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My work is the only ground Ive ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but Im working on the foundation. – Marilyn Monroe

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How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant – and if youre gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed? – Rush Limbaugh

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. – Jane Austen

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My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So theres a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community. – Mike Huckabee

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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time. – Aristotle

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