Matthew Sweet Quotes
There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.
Quotes to Explore
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
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For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
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I'm not nervous standing with anyone.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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I've always had an interest in doing something that was outside my comfort zone; I had this thing about standing on the edge of the cliff and deciding to jump.
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Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.
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Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes; but no emotion any more than a wave can long retain its own individual form.
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It's part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents.
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History
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When I wanted to serve my country, I was forced to hide the most basic and human aspect of my life and my identity from the people to whom I was supposed to be the closest - and with whom I had to trust my life. I also had to hide from myself.
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There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.
