Matt McGorry Quotes
It'll be interesting to see if I ever have to play a typical, bland romantic interest. I'm quirky, and playing it kind of straight and bland doesn't interest me a whole lot.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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Midi is my hobby.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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My childhood was colorfully anarchic and punctuated by a lot of change.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
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Healthy debate has been replaced by automatic sensors that eliminate the need for actual talking during a filibuster - a la 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' Robust debate is necessary in a democratic society. Instead, our discourse has been relegated to media spin by expert entertainers.
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I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.
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What good is it? All this, what good is it? -Mariam
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How do we make a record that's true to the vibe of the band but still maintain the pace of moving forward and doing something fresh?
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I don't know a single woman in her 40s who isn't incredibly full of life and sexuality and desire for everything. There's nothing sexier than life experience, and there's nothing sexier than knowing your own body and having a little bit of experience with that.
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It'll be interesting to see if I ever have to play a typical, bland romantic interest. I'm quirky, and playing it kind of straight and bland doesn't interest me a whole lot.
