Matthew Sweet Quotes
I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party.
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I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.
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I love downtown L.A .and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.
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Just try to focus one game at a time, not worry about points or anything like that. Worry about playing the right way and see what comes of it.
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First time I walked out on the Opry stage, Vince Gill was there. He kind of 'daddied' me through the whole thing. My knees were knocking. I walked out there, and I was literally shaking. They say it's the spirits or the ghosts. And out of respect for that whole establishment, I was really really nervous.
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The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.
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I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.
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My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.
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As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.
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Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
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I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.
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I grew up in China, but I live in the U.S. and I want my children to understand what's going on over there. They ask me sometimes, 'Are we Chinese or Australians?' My family are in L.A., New York and China, and they have the freedom to go back and forth, which is really, really nice.
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That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.
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We were big Saturday Night Live and Eddie Murphy fans.
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My mom told me a long time ago, 'Never get in a fight with a lady.'
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My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe.
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My wife likes me to point out that she puts our daughter down to sleep more often than I do, which gives me time to write stupid books about it.
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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We live because of the dreams.
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I remember when we were shooting Boogie Nights, all of my stand-ins were wiping out all the time. I'd practice before I got to the set, but they'd just show up and put on the roller-skates, and they'd be skating over these wires and cables, so they would all fall over. It was totally dangerous.
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I don't see the Hurricanes relocating, period. I think the Triangle is a terrific market.
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I was an at-home father, taking care of them for seven years when they were babies. I was one of those new-age, at-home dads.
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I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party.
