Matthew Sweet Quotes
I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It's not that I don't want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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There were many years when I was hand-to-mouth and didn't know how I was gonna make rent. I've done every job under the sun, from busing tables, temping, and working in factories to SAT prep and detailing cars. So to be able to make a living where all I do is write is absolutely liberating.
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I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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I do watch a lot of YouTube.
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I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
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High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
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Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.
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Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.
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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
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I see myself as extremely lucky.
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We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.
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It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small - a locked room-style story.
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Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
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Comics have years to explain this stuff, and in a movie, you have to focus on one thing. So it's about kind of streamlining, I think. Some of the most successful origin films actually have a narrower focus.
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I grew my dreadlocks 12 years ago because they give me the freedom to roll out of bed and not spend hours on my woolly, thick hair. I get tons of dropped jaws and compliments, so I reckon folks like them all right.
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Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.
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I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It's not that I don't want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records.
