Matthew Modine
American actor
Like falling – endlessly – and then discovering you have wings.
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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Anxiety, mostly, once you have kids.
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Sarah Parish
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It feels like home.
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Real love feels like freedom.
Andrew O'Hagan
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Like getting out of the right side of the bed every morning, even when you don’t.
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I’d take back some dumb shit I said when I had no audience and found that being shocking made people laugh.
Maybe when my wife Sarah and I were walking back to our hotel in Covent Garden, London, through the snow after the Olivier awards when Matilda won all the stuff. Hold on, I’m meant to say the birth of my children, aren’t I?
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