Matt Stone Quotes
I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me.'
Quotes to Explore
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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When I started 'Still Missing,' I had a few key plot points in mind, which I played around with mentally for a couple of months, then one day I just started writing. Not having an outline led to some cool plot twists, but also many rewrites! A lot of the plotting happened on subsequent drafts.
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New York is the place where they bind books and write blurbs and arrange the publicity and print the galleys... But Chicago is the place where the book is lived out before it is bound and the song is sung before it is recorded.
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Denys Cowan and Dwayne Turner's visions of Wakanda as an ersatz African Epcot Center opened my eyes to the unexploited possibilities; these men, both of whom are African American, together with writer Peter B. Gillis, created an African Asgard of sorts, and I just went, 'Oh, my.'
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I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different element of that storytelling process.
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I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me.'
