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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My voice is rather quirky. It's abysmally low. People often think I'm putting it on at first. Think drunk Darth Vader. Or Barry White singing country. It suits my dark material. When I do readings, I really play it up and go subterranean. I can make the phone book sound terrifying.
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I'm a redneck.
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As much as I love creating entertaining visuals, I love toying with the pace of a movie and trying to perfect that. It's imperative to the impact: faster cuts, cuts at the right moments that meld with the tenor of a scene. Creating and maintaining that feeling.
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Love alone could waken love.
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The Vatican has tried to condemn 'The Magdalene Sisters' as a pack of lies and that I've made it all up - I wish I was that good a dramatist - and in terms of public relations, that was the daftest thing they ever did.
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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?
