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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I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.
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My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character.
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No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.
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If love is blind I guess I'll buy myself a cane.
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I'm ashamed I didn't change my behavior until I was forced to do so by circumstance and by others. The reality is, I was stopped from further bad actions by those who spoke up about my offenses, at substantial risk to their personal and professional reputations... and subsequently, by Christine and others on the 500 team.
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I'm a very vicious critic of myself.
