Matt Groening Quotes
Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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The Broadway audiences are very vocal and seem very engaged. For certain shows, especially with a show like 'The Heiress,' the audience's reactions sound like 'The Jerry Springer Show' sometimes. That seems to be a very New York thing. Oh, there's also the entrance round of applause here, which we don't get too much in London.
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I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.
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China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There's no central authority. There's no one you can go to and say, 'We're going to turn Bitcoin off.'
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I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.
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I did Polyester, and I don't regret one minute of it. It was wonderful.
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Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.
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I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.
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Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports is not easy. So state governments need to be proactive. Indians need to be made aware of the power of an Olympic medal. It should be treated at par with an Oscars or a Nobel Prize.
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I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess.
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I don't appeal to everyone well. I appeal to fewer people in a much stronger way. That's what fandom is to me, and what creates fans for everything I make.
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Listen, if you don't talk big game, you never get anywhere. If you don't think big, you don't get big. Some people call it egotistical, some people call it high hopes, some people call it confidence. It's all in how you want to dissect it.
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The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.
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The thing about Parsons compared to the other schools is that it really teaches you how to be a designer, whereas some of the other schools teach you to sketch or teach you the technical skills. But the curriculum at Parsons when I was there was how do you put a collection together, as well as all the technical stuff. It's the best training.
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In Australia, getting an audition can be a rarity. There just aren't as many opportunities.
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Attempting to be a people pleaser is a fruitless task so, fuck it.
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My objection to metre is that it enables people to write verse with no poetic inspiration.
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I am not a human being, I am dynamite.
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I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.
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I have the largest collection of Hulk memorabilia in the world - everything from toilet paper, wallpaper, bicycles - all boxed up at my house in Northern California. I've had it for so long, I think it might be time to sell it.
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My priority is for all trains to run on time, but the WestMidRailway service has been woeful. Therefore today I'm requiring them to invest £20m in improving timetables, recruiting new train drivers to tackle staff shortages and compensating passengers.
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There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.
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Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.
