Matt Harvey Quotes
A lot of work is going in, and it's not paying off. And it's becoming very frustrating for me.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where, I think, everyone can do the job, and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
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What is science? yard-measure and scale to philosophy, expert-accountant, bank clerk. What is poetry? miserable, ill-fed, underpaid, unionized labourer, pleased to oblige, grateful for work, flattering himself that poverty makes him an aristocrat.
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Films that score very high with test audiences generally tend to not be so great. But, there's a lot of money involved in making movies, and it's a way for people to reassure themselves, who have spent money, and it's also a way to work out how to market a movie.
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Millions of people with respiratory diseases have relied on oxygen equipment, delivered to their homes, to help them breathe.
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If I'm on form and I'm not being bothered too much by mental problems or whatever, I can whip out something good. That's why I've done quite a few overdubs for Tina Turner and things like that, because even before she made this comeback I said yes to her, just because I love Tina Turner.
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Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death.
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A lot of work is going in, and it's not paying off. And it's becoming very frustrating for me.
