Matthew James Thomas Quotes
One of the hardest things I've encountered whilst working on 'Pippin' is the consistent irony, as a reflection from the core material of the show, within my own life.
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
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I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.
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Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.
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I never worked in an office in my life.
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I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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Be aware of who in your life is actually interested in hearing you discuss your writing, and who's just asking to be polite. Listening to writers talk about their work is often excruciatingly dull.
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Men view life to be as precious as women do, and to say that men have a more violent nature is insulting to men.
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Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.
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When I find the right person, nothing else will matter, but I'm prepared to kiss a lot of frogs.
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Where there is love there is life.
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I find too often in the wrestling business, you just wrestle, get to the hotel, make your money. Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself to enjoy my life and not just rush through.
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I have got a fantastic life and I just like to get on with it, and I am quite a private person.
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Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end.
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I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.
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Your look reflects what's happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.
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In 1952, when I was 15 and living on Governors Island, which was then First Army Headquarters, I encountered the newly-published 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Of course, that book became the iconic anti-establishment novel for my generation.
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You don't want to move in with someone and find out that they don't have auto or health insurance. That's a rude awakening.
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One of the hardest things I've encountered whilst working on 'Pippin' is the consistent irony, as a reflection from the core material of the show, within my own life.
