Matt Besser Quotes
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.
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I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
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I really trust Susan Stroman. I really think she knows what she's doing. I really trust Andrew Lippa and John August. I think they have proven themselves over and over again and know what to do, and they have the big picture in mind.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.
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I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
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I've trained my people in mentoring entrepreneurs and made myself obsolete.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.
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I feel like a lot of serious music lives in generalizations - 'Love is a flower,' 'The sky is so dark' - but comedy lives in specifics.
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We constantly had family conversations. A lot of conversations about life. We've always been a family to where we did everything together, whether it was karate or Bible study... I just really had a chance to look and learn.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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Never give up, and never give in.
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I always liked having a good time. I got into this business because I got fired from any job I ever had because I stayed out late playing music.
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I'm not interested in 'lovey dovey,' everything is so great in the world. That doesn't interest me at all.
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I'm named after Jane Austen's Emma, and I've always been able to relate to her. She's strong, confident but quite tactless.
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I am a consummate metaphor addict.
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Whatever you do, take pride in it and be great at it.
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I'm more of a sketch guy than a standup.
