Matt Berninger Quotes
'Alligator' was the first record that anyone paid attention to, and it seemed like it was the screamy songs that got us that attention.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
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The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
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I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?
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A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
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Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.
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A new laboratory technique, positron emission tomography, uses radioactively labeled oxygen or glucose that essentially lights up specific and different areas of the brain being activated when a person speaks words or sees words or hears words, revealing the organic location for areas of behavioral malfunction.
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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Kara Braxton, she's a great player, so I think they can go far this year.
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It's perfectly okay to fail. It sounds corny, but it truly is about the journey.
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I really don't feel as connected to Heaven as I do to the ones where I was there from start to finish. And on this record I was there for every moment.
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Definitely Muddy Waters has been a prime influence for anybody who's ever done anything rock 'n' roll.
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I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.
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'Alligator' was the first record that anyone paid attention to, and it seemed like it was the screamy songs that got us that attention.
