Matt Lauer Quotes
In this business, the minute you start feeling comfortable about the show you're doing or the ratings you're getting, you're in big trouble.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who knows what they really think. I actually stole the recipe from my older sister Vera, who also loves to cook. I took all my recipes from her.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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It's never been difficult for me to say no. I have never given excuses like I don't have dates. I have never over-quoted to avoid a project. I simply say that while the script might be good, I can't connect with it. My strategy is that while I wouldn't want anyone to waste my time, I shouldn't be doing that, either, with others.
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Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.
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Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
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It is not acceptable that European Union countries are divided into those who give and those who take.
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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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You have to learn how to read contracts, how to position yourself, and about marketing. That is why you find the most successful artists are the ones who can mix creativity with business.
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My feeling about all films and all television is that it's an adventure. That's the way I have to look at it. Because you don't know what the climate of the circumstance is going to be. It could be very good. It could be very mediocre. It could be very bad. You don't know. But I've been doing it long enough now to know that it's an adventure. That's what it's all about.
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The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.
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In this business, the minute you start feeling comfortable about the show you're doing or the ratings you're getting, you're in big trouble.
