Mat Kearney Quotes
I was always into poetry and writing. So the urgency of spoken word is something that really has always appealed to me.
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It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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I am an obsessive personality. And if you are an obsessive personality, you need to be aware of it and be able to drive it with success. There are moments in your life when you are driving it well, but you shift and you shift badly and you hurt yourself.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
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The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.
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There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
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I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand. I think if I didn't have a computer, I just couldn't do it. Maybe it's a brain-section issue.
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To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.
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Various circumstances, mainly to do with my military service, prevented me from doing a Ph.D., and I have often regretted it, though you do need to choose the 'right' supervisor in the 'right' discipline - no easy task when you are totally inexperienced.
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Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.
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I was always into poetry and writing. So the urgency of spoken word is something that really has always appealed to me.
