Matt Ross Quotes

Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor in the first place. Your hair and make-up and the costume are the tools that you have, and it makes you feel like that person. When you look in the mirror, you don't feel like yourself, and it changes the way you move. I love that stuff.

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• I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Money
  • Help
  • Mother

• Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Priority
  • Possible
  • Spend

• If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Guitar
  • Just
  • Studying

• You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Music
  • Like
  • Dance

• I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Career
  • Politics
  • Strength

• My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Career
  • Woman
  • Husband

• There is no diplomacy like candor.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Like
  • Diplomacy
  • Candor

• The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • People
  • Up
  • Giving

• No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Past
  • Without
  • Some

• Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Opinion
  • Popular
  • Diversity

• One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Long
  • Today
  • Guy

• I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Death
  • Hate
  • Sleep

• Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Country
  • Wall
  • President

• The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Experience

• Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Time
  • Important
  • Long

• When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.

  

  Usher
  • Dance
  • Made
  • Jokes

• If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Dance
  • Successful
  • Tennis

• In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more freedom in fiction writing.

  

  Maria Semple
  • Writing
  • Freedom

• For work, I wear art; in real life, I wear clothes.

  

  Meghan Markle
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.

  

  Christopher Dodd
  • Food

• There is a kind of belief among my students that things that are true are interesting. But most things that are true are not interesting. Four pages describing how I got up and brushed my teeth in the morning would kill you.

  

  Alistair MacLeod
  • Up
  • True
  • Interesting

• Definitions must contain the means of reaching a decision in a finite number off steps, and existence proofs must be conducted so that the quantity in question can be calculated with any degree of accuracy.

  

  Leopold Kronecker
  • Question
  • Decision
  • Definitions

• Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor in the first place. Your hair and make-up and the costume are the tools that you have, and it makes you feel like that person. When you look in the mirror, you don't feel like yourself, and it changes the way you move. I love that stuff.

  

  Matt Ross
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  • Hair