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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
-
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
-
I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
-
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.
-
The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
-
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.
-
I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
-
I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
-
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.
-
I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
-
I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
-
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.
-
The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.
-
There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
-
Christian audiences, I think, have grown very tired of movies that try to pander to them.
-
In my own writing, I tend to be very honest, and my goal is to identify something people think but are afraid to say. That's not the general cultural expectation of women.
-
O'Casey was writing about people in the streets and his mother and dying babies and poverty. So that astounded me because I thought you could only write about English matters.
-
The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul. The soul must work its way out of prison, and, in doing so, provide itself with wings for a future journey. It is for each of us to determine whether our wings shall be those of an angel or a grub!
-
I was always into poetry and writing. So the urgency of spoken word is something that really has always appealed to me.
