Matt Cameron Quotes
Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship just wasn't happening at all, and our chemistry as people broke down because of that.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.
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No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
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I don't like allegories.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively to congestion.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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With the World War II era, there's so much written material to draw on. When you go back to the 14th century, you have to imagine more.
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It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism.
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Any damn fool can build homes. What counts is how many you can sell for how little.
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Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.
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I do know in the 1960s comics, Martian Manhunter took on the form of a black man - that could have been influenced by the political climate back then.
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Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship just wasn't happening at all, and our chemistry as people broke down because of that.
