Matt Besser Quotes
There's a creative vibe at U.C.B., and to maintain it, we can't pay people. If you pay, then you have to assign worth to shows, and then people will resent that.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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Women are sacred.
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I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side.
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When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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I'd rather entertain people than offend them.
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The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
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I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
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I can’t tell someone that their dreams are impossible.
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Too many people will die needlessly if we go back to letting people buy junk insurance or insurance that doesn't help people with diseases related to mental illness.
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We have been talking today on how we can send a message to the people in both communities, the Islamic and European, that we need this not to happen again...We strongly hope that people will be now sensible to understand that.
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But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.
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I doubt anybody would have pushed me on the music. When I was at Sony nobody ever gave me any creative suggestions on the music.
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There's a creative vibe at U.C.B., and to maintain it, we can't pay people. If you pay, then you have to assign worth to shows, and then people will resent that.
