Matthew Sweet Quotes

Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around '92 and '96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life.

Matthew Sweet

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People were confused by me, and at first I was auditioning a lot for the crazy characters or the victim, someone who'd been attacked. Which is great, because usually those are the best acting roles.

Jessica Chastain

GreatBestPeopleMeCrazyConfused

I'm not as good a singer as I am an actor. So that's why I - the stories I like so much is because I've been a story teller for a long time. I started as a singer and found out I didn't have a very good voice. That's the reason I went into acting.

Andy Griffith

GoodTimeI AmVoiceStoryActing

I like the idea of working in an album-sized chunk, you know, and I never looked at Nine Inch Nails as a project that would be a hit-driven, single-based kind of thing.

Trent Reznor

YouKnowKindNailsNeverProject

Dee Dee Ramone was the one who would go to Rockaway Beach, and he wrote that great song about it. He was the beach boy; he loved getting a tan and stuff, and he would ride the bus down Woodhaven Boulevard to Rockaway.

Tommy Ramone

GreatBeachRideSongLovedDown

Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient.

Robin Cousins

LearningProcessDoingEnjoyYou

I do still collect chairs.

Robert Wilson

StillChairsCollect

In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.

Bruno Mars

HawaiiRadioReggaeSomeLocalBob

If you've looked at all the glamour magazines lately, all the covers are actresses. If they are on those covers, they are going to try to emulate models. That's just the way it is.

Portia de Rossi

YouWayTryGlamourGoingJust

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Thomas Edward Brown

FunnyManRichAlwaysJoke

We really have some of the best fans in the NBA, in sports in general. Here, you get a consistent base, people support. People love the Spurs, and that's special. That's not everywhere.

Tim Duncan

LoveSportsBestSupportPeopleYou

I am not one of these guys who is just going to waste American lives by throwing people needlessly in frontal attacks up against the enemy if I can avoid doing that.

Norman Schwarzkopf

I AmPeopleAmericanDoingI CanUp

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.

Richard Wright

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