Mat Kearney Quotes

I don't think, to be a traveler, you have to reject setting roots up.

Mat Kearney

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• It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.

  

  Omar Bongo
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  • Political
  • Courage

• I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.

  

  J. C. Chandor
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  • Family
  • Business

• I was just finishing up 'Spotlight' in Toronto - I finished it on a Tuesday and started 'True Detective' on a Friday. So I was missing rehearsals, unfortunately, which I hate and why I never like to work back-to-back.

  

  Rachel McAdams
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  • Work
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• It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.

  

  Banksy
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• We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.

  

  Kage Baker
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• I've got a lot of other things I want to do.

  

  Calvin Johnson
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• If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?

  

  Randy Quaid
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• I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
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  • Career

• Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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  • Mind
  • Thought

• I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

  

  Dana Spiotta
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  • Writing
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• Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
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• I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.

  

  Samuel Larsen
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• I wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase - I thought having a staircase meant that you were a normal family. I thought somehow if you could transplant us to the suburbs, we would become a normal family. But in retrospect, I'm so grateful I grew up in the Chelsea.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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• I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.

  

  Queen Latifah
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• It is a fact that scientists have deposited dye in certain lakes around Orlando and tracked the effluent to Florida Bay. There is a lake near Everglades City, Deep Lake, and large tarpon show up in that lake, 30 miles from the sea.

  

  Randy Wayne White
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• I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

  

  Sam Walton
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• I think 'Lost' was really a pioneer in the use of the kind of connection between a television show and the Internet, and the Internet really gave fans an opportunity to create a community around the show. That was something that wasn't really planned; it just sort of grew up in the wake of the show.

  

  Carlton Cuse
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• I would wake up really early and go into the hotel bathroom, put a towel over the toilet, and put my laptop there. I'd put my headphones on and just write. And so now when I do writing sessions, and I am stuck on a part, or I can't figure out a chorus, I'm just like, 'Give me a second,' and I'll go to that bathroom.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
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  • Hotel

• The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet.

  

  Mary Higgins Clark
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• I don't know why I am not offered woman-oriented films. Films like 'Satrangee Re' went house-full at some centres, but I didn't have much to do in the film. Everyone came up to me and said that I looked pretty but nothing beyond that.

  

  Amruta Khanvilkar
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• My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
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• If someone said, 'Sit down and write a 'Community' episode,' I would be panicked.

  

  Jim Rash
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• I thought it was too 'glam rock' to practice. The problem is that now I'm a pretty bad guitar player.

  

  Laurent Brancowitz Phoenix
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• I don't think, to be a traveler, you have to reject setting roots up.

  

  Mat Kearney
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