Dan Mathews Quotes

Do you know that fat little guy from Seinfeld? He has become the main pitchman for KFC, Jason Alexander. And beginning in May he is going to star in the West Coast production of 'The Producers.' It's made for us. We can be slamming him as the play opens. If we do this properly, he will wish he never saw a chicken.

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• The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Game
  • Basketball
  • Image

• There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Together
  • Better

• Granted, I've changed internally as I've gotten older - I take it easy, I know when to stop and take care of myself, I laugh much more and with my belly and soul - but this comes from the confidence and acceptance that comes with maturity.

  

  Iman
  • Soul
  • Stop
  • Myself

• I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Spiritual
  • Religion
  • Phases

• Never give up, and never give in.

  

  Hal Newhouser
  • Up
  • Never
  • Give

• When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and being a ham. An agent was there and she was telling me, 'Hey, do you think you'd want to go out on auditions?' I was like, 'Yeah, what's an audition? Sure, I'll do it.'

  

  Vanessa Lengies
  • Music
  • Band
  • Making

• The game is just one long conversation, and I'm anticipating that, and I will say things like 'Did you know that?' or 'You're probably wondering why.' I'm really just conversing rather than just doing play-by-play. I never thought of myself as having a style. I don't use key words. And the best thing I do? I shut up.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Up
  • Long
  • Why

• I've been stopped cold from eating another burger!

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Cold

• Live, for I love you!

  

  Edmond Rostand
  • Live

• When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins

• I grew up with a single mom, two brothers, and a sister, and after school, we would play outside then go home for dinner and play videogames together. It's something I enjoy doing, and it's also cheap entertainment compared to a movie or paying for cable. You pay $50 one time for a game, and you can play it as many times as you want.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do things honestly. I guess honesty is what you would call subjective: if you feel good about what you're doing, yourself, if you figure you're doing the right thing.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • Good
  • Honesty

• Surf music at the time that I did it wasn't mainstream, nor were the Cheech and Chong albums. The risk comes from having the ability to do something that hadn't been done before that I thought was either interesting as an art form or just should be done.

  

  Lou Adler
  • Time
  • Music
  • Done

• We need to stop flying, stop driving cars and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Stop
  • Driving
  • Flying

• I always wanted to be a children's author, and I have a really big library of children's books. All the ones from when I was little, they are just so beautiful. I read kids' books, and they calm me down.

  

  Jenny Slate
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Beautiful

• I get to come home to my family. It's awesome, just constant adventure, never a dull moment. So much life.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Life
  • Family
  • Home

• Part of the creative journey for me was not to come up the conventional route. I didn't go through drama school. I chose not to. I came from a very working-class area, a child of Nigerian immigrants.

  

  DeObia Oparei
  • Up
  • School
  • Drama

• I think we're still better than the way we played.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • I Think
  • Played

• In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Good
  • Book
  • American

• My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Wish
  • Dying
  • Uncle

• But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.

  

  Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Attention

• Do you know that fat little guy from Seinfeld? He has become the main pitchman for KFC, Jason Alexander. And beginning in May he is going to star in the West Coast production of 'The Producers.' It's made for us. We can be slamming him as the play opens. If we do this properly, he will wish he never saw a chicken.

  

  Dan Mathews
  • Guy
  • Wish
  • Animal