Mat Kearney Quotes

I'm actually named Matthew William Kearney: my middle name is named after my grandfather.

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• If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Time
  • Think
  • Period

• I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.

  

  Vera Wang
  • True
  • Past
  • Myself

• He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Man
  • Him
  • Telephone

• If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Death
  • Taken

• For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Fun

• Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Children
  • Wish
  • Speak

• I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Writing
  • Thought
  • Seriously

• I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.

  

  Babette March
  • Money
  • Myself
  • Army

• My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Like
  • Childhood
  • Kitchen

• It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • You
  • Matter
  • Repetition

• Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Man

• It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Men
  • Wish
  • Better

• Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • Good
  • Democracy

• I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Past

• I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Work
  • Thoughts
  • Inspiration

• Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
  • You
  • Plan

• We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Powerful
  • Environment
  • Poor

• That, in part, is why the Constitution's framers gave justices life tenure ? to enable them to rule wherever the law and the Constitution led them, without obligation or fear of political reprisal. Former Republican president Gerald Ford recently paid tribute to John Paul Stevens, his only appointee to the Supreme Court, who is also far more liberal than Republicans expected. He has served his nation well, ... with dignity, intellect and without partisan political concerns.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Law
  • Constitution
  • Rule

• I've always been of the mindset that you will be defined by the things you say 'no' to because it's so easy to say 'yes.'

  

  Paul Sparks
  • Things
  • Say
  • Define

• Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Men
  • Comedy

• She laughed at bad jokes, stayed out too late, and overslept too often. Charity Hill loved holidays and she hated budgets and the alarm clock.

  

  Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • Charity
  • Jokes
  • Laughed

• I love modeling because I get to see everything that inspires me. Then I go home and sketch.

  

  Sofia Richie
  • Inspire
  • Modeling
  • Sketch

• I'm actually named Matthew William Kearney: my middle name is named after my grandfather.

  

  Mat Kearney