Matthew Stewart Quotes

If you're working for somebody and trying to check on them, it never works. You're just saying what they want you to say at the end of the day.

Matthew Stewart

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• As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Trying
  • Career
  • Interesting

• I'm trying to focus on my job as I see it, which is to write the next thing and to remain, to the degree that I ever was, a noticer.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Focus

• People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Me

• I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.

  

  Flume
  • Trying
  • True
  • Success

• Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Trying
  • Politicians

• Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Different
  • Trying

• I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Comedy
  • Public
  • Servant

• I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • World
  • Trying
  • Power

• If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Live
  • Trying

• I've been pretty lucky with neighbors. But back in 1998, I lived, like, literally next door to Wrigley Field in Chicago. And I had, like, 50,000 bad neighbors spread out over the course of one summer. I'm a diehard Cubs fan, but living right next to the ballpark, it's just - as you're trying to go to sleep, you can just, like, hear urination.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Trying
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• When I'm writing, I'm just in it and trying to figure out what seems best.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Best

• I was always trying - I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Me

• I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Trying
  • Next
  • Dave

• If you sing beautifully about nothing, no one will listen. If you sing badly about great stuff, no one will listen. Ideas are everywhere, but my theory is that a writer doesn't just think of an idea: they perform them.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Great
  • Think
  • Ideas

• I feel very lucky to have had the opportunity to bring Peter Morgan's Princess Elizabeth to life; she is a gift of a role and a challenge I am so grateful for - a young woman trying to navigate a path through an extraordinary situation.

  

  Claire Foy
  • Life
  • Trying
  • She

• I've learned what Tip O'Neill meant when he said all politics is local. We need more people in Congress who have this experience, who have this boots-on-the-ground experience.

  

  Jim Gray
  • People
  • Experience

• As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Think
  • Always
  • Brain

• I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real life.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Real

• I wanted to make an album that sounded like a release of inhibitions, really getting away from the idea that you have to be anything other than in that moment.

  

  Dawn Angeliqué Richard

• If you're working for somebody and trying to check on them, it never works. You're just saying what they want you to say at the end of the day.

  

  Matthew Stewart
  • Trying