Uncle Kracker (Matthew Shafer) Quotes
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.
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I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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Most geniuses are weird.
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No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
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I believe in the institution of marriage; Other than cinema, it's the only way to be immortalised!
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The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
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I'm a character actress. I'm the girl next door, the aunt, the quirky cousin. You have to innately know who you are and be happy with that.
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I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.
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I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we've created are completely unnecessary. That's just another person on the other side, and it's his bad luck that he was born there and it's my good fortune that I was born here. It's all kind of illogical.
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What resonates culturally with me about Japanese style is that it is very covered up but very sensual.
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True love's the gift which God has givenTo man alone beneath the heaven:It is not fantasy's hot fire,Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;It liveth not in fierce desire,With dead desire it doth not die;It is the secret sympathy,The silver link, the silken tie,Which heart to heart, and mind to mindIn body and in soul can bind.
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I bought Justin Bieber's house... He had, like, this nook under the stairs which I didn't need, so I covered it up. When I ran into him, he was like 'What did you do with the nook? I used to go in there and play video games.' When I told him it was gone, he was so upset. I didn't think this 20-year-old boy would even care!
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I see myself as a family man.
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When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.
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When those of us in the words-making world use the term 'overregulation,' we are mostly putting a name to a concept we rarely experience consciously.
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I hyperventilate opening a box of chocolates. I'm the most nervous guy in the world.
