Matt Prokop Quotes
My mom always liked the idea of us acting - me and my sister - like, one of us trying it. But my dad always thought it was a joke.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
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Geffen was never supportive of the band.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.
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Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.
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I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad.
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I just think political correctness is crap.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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Obviously, you have quieter years than others - you don't go jumping out of a plane every day.
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I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.
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Even though my shoes are different from Ferragamo's aesthetic, which is more classic, I learned the importance of fit and quality. We were making shoes like they used to, by hand, and I carried that with me.
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The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
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So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here.
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I'm not a Rachel Dolezal. I don't fake tan; I don't have the cornrows, I don't misappropriate. I just want to be Beyonce.
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I'm always trying to make myself laugh. I'm the most enthusiastic audience I'm likely to find, so if it doesn't make me smile then it probably won't work on you. The jokes that only make me shrug get cut.
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We had a lot of difficulty in getting the French to accept the pyramid. They thought we were trying to import a piece of Egypt until I pointed out that their obelisk was also from Egypt and the Place des Pyramides is around the corner. Then they accepted it. The pyramid at the Louvre, though, is just the tip.
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My pub was full of get-rich-quick schemes that never worked - scams, pyramid schemes. People trying to find a way to get themselves out of a rut.
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My mom always liked the idea of us acting - me and my sister - like, one of us trying it. But my dad always thought it was a joke.
