Matt Besser Quotes
A story is ultimately a memory. It's important when you're telling a story to think about why this memory is a memory. You don't remember everything in life; you just remember certain things - so, why this one?
Quotes to Explore
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
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To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.
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Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
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The single greatest thing you can do to change your life today would be to start being grateful for what you have right now. And the more grateful you are, the more you get.
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Some discrimination is perfectly reasonable. The discrimination between trying to teach our kids what most of human history has thought was a desirable lifestyle that will contribute to their happiness, and trying to deter them - not to prohibit, and not to punish - but trying to steer them in a direction that will contribute to their happiness.
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I believe people can have a profound experience by being surrounded by something beautiful - that's what I aim for. My sculpture is about the way you feel when you're standing under it and inside it. It's experiential art.
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Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
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Overwhelming, student loan payments are holding millions back from buying homes, starting families, and saving for retirement.
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A story is ultimately a memory. It's important when you're telling a story to think about why this memory is a memory. You don't remember everything in life; you just remember certain things - so, why this one?
