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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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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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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I think I'm designed to regret everything.
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The greatest gift you can give to others is to fulfill YOUR potential, so that you can show them how to fulfill theirs.
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In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.
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The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that’s thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men’s rights.
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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.
