Matthew Ramsey Quotes
The writing process for us is different with every song. Sometimes they come from our lives, or someone else we know may be going through something that we choose to write about.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
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We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
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It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.
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I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
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That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
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I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.
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A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
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Do you remember where you were when Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died?
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Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively.
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It is disgusting that 'Life & Style' and 'InTouch' magazines continue to print these false stories about my life: the status of my marriage, false reports about a miscarriage, the horrible lie that my dad is not my biological father, jealousy over my sisters' lives, etc.
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Sita and Ram were two strong individuals, and their love for each other is an example for lovers across the globe.
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When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.
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The writing process for us is different with every song. Sometimes they come from our lives, or someone else we know may be going through something that we choose to write about.
