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It must be odd, being recognisable. I would hate to lose that anonymity. It happened for a while with 'Spooks.' No one notices me now.


Matthew Macfadyen

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MATTHEW HENRY I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do ...
MATTHEW BARNEY I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technolo...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd nev...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Poverty is a relationship that involves a lot of folks, rich and poor alike. I was looking for somet...
MATTHEW DESMOND The texture and hardship of poverty and eviction is something that I think left the deepest impressi...
MATTHEW DESMOND It takes a good amount of time and money to establish a home. Eviction can erase all that.
MATTHEW DESMOND I think that we value fairness in this country. We value equal opportunity. Without a stable home, t...
MATTHEW DESMOND When I want to understand a problem, I want to understand it from the ground level.
MATTHEW DESMOND Payday loans are but one of many financial techniques - from overdraft fees to student loans subsidi...
MATTHEW DESMOND Libraries are not just places where people go read a book, but places where an immigrant goes to tak...
MATTHEW DESMOND There were evictions that I saw that I know I'll never forget. In one case, the sheriff and the ...
MATTHEW DESMOND A community that sees so clearly its own disadvantage or its own hardships also has a harder time se...
MATTHEW DESMOND You lose your home, you are much more likely to lose your job the year following. The reason for tha...
MATTHEW DESMOND Eviction comes with a record, too, and just as a criminal record can bar you from receiving certain ...
MATTHEW DESMOND You do learn how to cope from those who are coping.
MATTHEW DESMOND Healthcare providers have helped me see that decent, safe housing can promote physical and mental we...
MATTHEW DESMOND You meet folks who are funny and really smart and persistent and loving that are confronting this th...
MATTHEW DESMOND Eviction is part of a business model at the bottom of the market.
MATTHEW DESMOND An eviction is an incredibly time consuming and stressful event.
MATTHEW DESMOND Between 2007 and 2010, the average white family experienced an 11% reduction in wealth, but the aver...
MATTHEW DESMOND I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I was a short, chubby kid, pretty shy.
MATTHEW LEWIS The environmental movement's focus on the Keystone XL pipeline issue really used to baffle me.
MATTHEW YGLESIAS We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good h...
MATTHEW MODINE I write little quotes all the time to help encourage people to come together, like this one: 'If...
MATTHEW UNDERWOOD I have what I like to call a 'chinneck.' My chin just flows rather easily into my neck.
MATTHEW PERRY America's revolutionary deists saw themselves as - and they were - participants in an internatio...
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