Mat Kearney Quotes
I don't know how much I'm connected to the hip-hop scene, but I definitely lend from that urgency.
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.
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Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.
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There's a history where, when women get to a certain age in this industry, the roles become strictly the mother, the wife, or the older single woman. There should be more of a variety because there are so many different paths that humans take, and they should be given a platform to be seen.
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
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I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.
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If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
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Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.
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You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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I had a band called the Sound Of Love, and that was R&B songs about girls in my high school. I played in some other indie bands who were trying to make it big; those sucked. Then I started Makeout Videotape, and that was that.
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I was a model for eight years. That's the deal: People look. But I didn't like being looked at and never seen.
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I'm trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That'd be putting too much pressure on myself. I'd go crazy if I thought like that.
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I'm by no means a pianist. I think that's safe to say, but the piano, for me, I would say it's the enabler. It gave me what I needed and gives me what I need in order to write a song. And I think playing or improvising on the piano is where I feel most liberated and sort of less conscious of all my insecurities or inadequacies.
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God has blessed me with an unbelievable talent, with fast feet, fast hands, unbelievable defense and a very, very sharp mind. So I'm thankful for that.
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The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.
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'Hollywood maids' are so idiotic. They grin at everything. I told Norman Lear I didn't want to play a maid because of that 'hee-hee/grin-grin' attitude, and he said, 'Who said I wanted that?' He told me he wanted two strong women that are the black and white of the same coin. I said, 'Oh, well - in that case, I'll be right there!'
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He who is not actively kind is cruel!
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She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.
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I don't know how much I'm connected to the hip-hop scene, but I definitely lend from that urgency.
