Matthew Stewart Quotes
We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them through a few courses in business school.
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
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I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.
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I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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The American school system's a little warped, so anyone can get a degree if they have a little money.
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When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It was allowed to just be TV. There were three channels that were competing for the whole family and you couldn't take your business elsewhere.
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I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.
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I moved to London to go to dance school when I was about 17, but then I realized that I didn't want to be a dancer anymore, so I dropped out after five or six weeks. All I wanted to do was sing and make music.
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I used to worry about what would happen five or 10 years from now, but I don't anymore. I thought about going to medical school because that has always interested me, but decided against it.
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But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.
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I married my high school sweetheart, and I do have two kids.
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I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
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I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
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I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.
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In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
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There were some super-lean years, yeah. I'm six feet four. And I entered into this period all of a sudden when I was too big to play a kid and I was too young to play an adult. Like, I couldn't play the lawyer, but I couldn't play the high school kid anymore.
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The American idea that everyone graduates high school at 18 is a good one.
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People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'
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After those first two BAFTAs, I didn't really get offered anything, which makes you think, 'Oh, no!' And, after I finished the second series of 'Broadchurch,' nothing came up for six months, which really is a long time, and I got a bit panicky.
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It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?
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We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them through a few courses in business school.
