Matt Besser Quotes
When we started doing sketch comedy - actually in '91 in Chicago - making your own videos, which we did, took forever. It would take like, a year to make one video. It was just so difficult to edit and just do everything you had to do.
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We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.
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It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!
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I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.
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I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court. Being alone in the dark is something I don't like.
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If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
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The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story, when you read a book, in a way that is unique and special to each person who reads it.
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I think it was a possibility, I think we're all kind of delusional like that, we think that we can all carry on being who we are without bending ourselves to make ourselves acceptable and expect someone to come along and see to us and rescue to us.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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It is possible to assemble a narrative for yourself, brokenly, on social media, only seeing what you want to look at.
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Women want the fairytale. Not all women, of course, but most women grow up dreaming about the kind of man who would risk everything for them, even knowing they might get hurt.
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When we started doing sketch comedy - actually in '91 in Chicago - making your own videos, which we did, took forever. It would take like, a year to make one video. It was just so difficult to edit and just do everything you had to do.
