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Matthew Lesko Quotes

I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office!

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: entertainer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1943

Topics

Government New York Book New Office

I never really had that father figure to look up to. I think that's the reason I'm so ambitious. I felt like I wasn't appreciated as a child so I wanted to prove my worth as an adult, as an actor.

Father Child Think Worth Look Actor

I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.

New York World You New Kind Smell

We should begin to remind people they are always after your money and if you are on something around average earnings you really don't have that spare capacity to pay for all these follies that Labour keep spending their money on.

Money People You Always Pay Begin

We live in a world in which there are many live things other than human beings, and many of these things can seem beautiful and amusing and interesting to us if they can catch our attention and if we can step back from our crabbed and limiting and lonely anthropocentricity to consider them.

Live Beautiful Step World Lonely

I thought if I lost the band, I was dead. If I didn't stick with the Who, I would be a sheet metal worker for the rest of my life.

Life Rest Thought My Life Lost Dead

I never thought I was much of an actor anyway.

Thought Actor Never Much Anyway

You've never seen anything until you've seen David Mamet be an Edwardian lady. He always conveys what he means, but he's so... masculine.

Mary Steenburgen

Lady You Never Always Anything Seen

One of the reasons I got into acting to begin with is that I was trying to figure out how life worked. It was interesting to me to try and follow how other people, real or imaginary, would deal with problems, because I was trying to deal with my own problems.

Michael Shannon

Life People Me Problems Interesting

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

Jean Baudrillard

Learning Power Way Need Same Us

I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures. It is not inhibited by flourish. It is a rhetorical society. It is a society of physical performance. It is a society of style.

Style Performance Society Place Come

The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience.

Think Doing Feedback I Can Audience

Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.

Music Youth Looking Back Looking You

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