Dave Matthews Quotes
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I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.
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I'm a wuss - a complete wuss!
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I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded.
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I am healthy and happy.
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.
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You work with some people, you see a spark in them and you can't help praising them. But everyone has their own destiny. No one can make anyone. Who reaches where and when, is all written.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.
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I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.
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I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
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It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.
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Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.
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A relationship is like another job, you know, you have to work at it all the time.
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I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction.
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I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.
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As an author, I love to know my book sells really well.
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Hey, I'm just looking for an excuse to retire so I can play summer league baseball, go coach my nephews, play pickup basketball. I've always had that ability to move on to the next thing.
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It is more difficult by far to be independent of our own inner shackles than it is of the shackles that others might place upon us.
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My goal is to spread the word about the need for more blood donors.
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I'm a very vicious critic of myself.
