Matthew Perry Quotes
When I was, like, 15, I realized there could be a career in making people laugh - like, you could get paid to do it. That was insane to me.
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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We must defend what we have achieved so far.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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I don't have many friends.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.
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They must have a feeling of do or die. It is such an overcrowded profession.
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It's very important to me that every person takes away their own meaning from a song, and it's why I don't always love spelling out what a song is about for somebody.
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When I was at Marvel, they were in bankruptcy, which is hard to believe now with 'Avengers 2' out, but it was during the 1990s. It was a troubled place. Comic book sales were dropping. Work was scattered.
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I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.
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When I was, like, 15, I realized there could be a career in making people laugh - like, you could get paid to do it. That was insane to me.
