Matthew Vasquez (Matthew Logan Vasquez) Quotes
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
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Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my friends. They're in love with my kids, and my kids are in love with them.
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Dude, I turn into a six-year-old when I come to Disneyland. It's amazing. My eyes glass over and my blood pressure goes down. I'm just like everybody else. I turn into a big kid when I come here. It's the happiest place on earth, right?
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My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.
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Well, I think it can be quite helpful to be working on a character who actually existed, historically. Of course, you might have material to study and help you create the character.
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If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.
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I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered - now I have only one doubt left - which of the twain was God?
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What you risk reveals what you value.
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On November 28, 2016, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, an 18-year-old legal resident of the United States whose family was originally from Somalia, used a car to mow down a group of people at the Ohio State University.
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I like my house to feel like a place where I can just lie back and say, 'Ahhhhh, I'm home.'
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Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.
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Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.
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It's hard to make a film in Britain. It's hard to raise money. The best stuff that is shot on film in Britain is usually shot on film for television.
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Whenever someone says zygotes are babies, I reply: 'Imagine a thousand zygotes in test tubes in one room, and three toddlers in another. A fire breaks out, and you only have time to get to one room. Which would you save from burning - the zygotes or the children?'
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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!
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I think one of the most beautiful things about YouTube is that it makes the world a smaller place. You realize that we're all different, but we're all the same. And if you think about it, it's a beautiful concept.
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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
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You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.
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Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.
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My aunt is the director of the acapella group Black Voices. I was so struck by them as a child. They sang with such passion and conviction. By the time I turned 15, I had plucked up the courage to ask if I could join the group. Acapella is a different discipline from singing with an accompaniment - it is much more exposed.
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Folk Music is the map of singing.
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I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
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Everybody has ownership on the thing they’re singing on.
