Matt Besser Quotes
I guess that I was always considered a little too weird for the standup clubs and probably too jokey for doing performance art and those places where those are done.
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The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done.
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Consumerism is so weird. It's a sort of conspiracy we collude in. You'd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on.
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I'm truly blessed with great genes. I've never done anything drastic in my life, and I can proudly say I haven't tried any of those crazy fad diets, either. I believe in eating right and living healthy. Plus, I love going to the gym, and I enjoy yoga because it streamlines your body.
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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
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David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.
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When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.
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To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
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Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.
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It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.
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I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.
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I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.
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Growing up, I was so shy, but it was weird because I was the complete opposite on stage. I was just free to be myself.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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I've got weird conflicting feelings about my generation.
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I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.
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You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
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My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea that I was English.
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A campaign is a complex organism that requires expensive parts. Finding the right parts and meshing them together into a cohesive working unit is an art in and of itself.
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I'm seeing myself as an outsider a little bit - definitely when I started the band. I knew what band's name meant and nobody else really did, so I'd be on stage every night and say, "Hello, we're Art Brut" - basically saying that we were rejects. But I mean, I didn't really sing, it did feel a bit like we were outsiders. It was a bit tongue-in-cheek when I first named the band that, but then we slowly turned into that - like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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I had a nice, pert nose but a plain round face and a mop of curly brown hair. That was not the photograph of a successful model.
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I guess that I was always considered a little too weird for the standup clubs and probably too jokey for doing performance art and those places where those are done.
