Mat Kearney Quotes
I grew up in Oregon, so there was always a lot of that folksy, Bob Marley stuff. There was a mural of Bob Marley on a wall at my high school.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
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To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
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I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
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A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.
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For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.
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That's what I love - to be pushed out of my comfort zone.
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I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
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All of the characters I've had the chance to create are survivors. But we live in a world where surviving makes up most of what we do.
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I grew up in Oregon, so there was always a lot of that folksy, Bob Marley stuff. There was a mural of Bob Marley on a wall at my high school.
