Chris Matthews Quotes
I'm reading Joe Eszterhas biography; it's fabulous. Every time he made a movie, he fought with the director or the producer over the ending.
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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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I do suspect that this world is hell.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.
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Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.
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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation. But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters.
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Once on stage, I was thinking of something else, and I forgot my line. I became so frightened. The girl I was playing with also became so frightened, she couldn't give me the next line. I just walked off stage.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
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All of us experience a gap between our minds and the reality of time—that's why we suffer.
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We know in New York we have several million at any one time who are in New York illegally.
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I'm reading Joe Eszterhas biography; it's fabulous. Every time he made a movie, he fought with the director or the producer over the ending.
