Matt Roper Quotes
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People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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To be sure, ASPM isn't the gene responsible for building big brains - there's no such single gene. But it's critical to the process, and the primate line has almost certainly benefited from distinct changes in ASPM.
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My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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When I arrive at my destination, I like to hit the gym, as I find exercise helps combat jet lag.
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I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little.
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I don't really believe in the auteur theory.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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I've spent my life visiting a handful of people who are very close to me when they've been committed to one hospital or another in New York.
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Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
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Jesse McCartney is one of the nicest people around. I hate when I hear bad things about him, because anyone who knows him would agree that he's a good guy and really humble.
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I think I was 9, and my mom ordered them for me from a catalogue. They bred like crazy, and I was selling gerbils all around Michigan. They wrote a story about me in the local newspaper.
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When I was about 12, I was studying Chinese and ballet with my brother, and one morning Jonathan said to me, 'I don't think I'm going to go to ballet class anymore,' and I looked at him and said, 'You know, I don't think I'm going to go to Chinese class anymore.'
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I am a lip person. I constantly need a really good lip moisturizer with me. Mine is a Clairin's moisture replenishing lip balm. I have two of them: I have one I keep next to my bed, so it's the first and last thing in the morning and evening, and then 10 times a day in my purse.
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The things that you did with parents, whether it was spending every Sunday morning with your dad and eating French toast and watching Popeye, or decorating the Christmas tree with our mother - these are memories that help you be happy.
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I'm a morning person, which is a hideous thing to be. No one likes morning people, not even other morning people.
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For me, abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. I'll go further and say that abstraction is nearer my heart. I prefer to see with closed eyes.
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Seven thirty in the morning is too early for a man of my standing.
