Matt Besser Quotes

In most specials, the performer's up - not only not surrounded, but up on a stage - and there's a distance between them and the audience, and I think my comedy doesn't work as well in that way.

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• We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.

  

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• Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.

  

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• I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!

  

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• To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.

  

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• Music is such a part of my soul.

  

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• While I have the greatest respect for the Supreme Court's members, I cannot claim familiarity with any particular judicial philosophies the justices might possess.

  

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• The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o'clock in the morning when you're all on your own you're going, 'Geez, I hope I know what I'm doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.'

  

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• Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.

  

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• My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.

  

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• There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.

  

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• Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.

  

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• Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

  

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• Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

  

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• The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.

  

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• The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.

  

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• I'm all about the supplements. I take fish oil every single day, as well as vitamin D, magnesium, B complex, vitamin C.

  

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• If I could be working every day, I would be.

  

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• I find love stories satisfying when you can see the work - when you can really watch people find each other and fall in love, a little bit at a time. I like slow burns. Falling in love is so good; why would you want to rush it?

  

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• When you work alongside somebody day in and day out, the relationships tend to be wonderful: they're lifelong.

  

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• A big part of reporting is just being present. You have to show up ten days in a row to get the one telling detail.

  

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• In most specials, the performer's up - not only not surrounded, but up on a stage - and there's a distance between them and the audience, and I think my comedy doesn't work as well in that way.

  

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