- Nov 07, 2020
Matter Quotes
On what actually counts.
This page starts with a striking reframe of confinement as something that can happen mentally even to people who are physically free, and pairs it with career advice about simply landing that first entry-level role. For related thinking, see Life.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people are afraid of the idea of enslavement, and that's because it's tied to so much shame and guilt... That is the big elephant in the room, but a part of why we're afraid to attack that subject matter is because of the way we've been taught about it.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an actor, it's very rare that you get a choice in a matter. But you're always looking for something that has some gravitas.
- Precision
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- Nov 07, 2020
Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter of unedited free-association.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, one can often get away with playing music by ear when it is not being recorded, but writing is another matter; its mistakes are not forgotten because they are still there to confuse us.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't matter what the scoreboard says. I'm always having fun, talking to other guys. They even come to first base and ask me about hitting. I try to help them out as much as I can in the 30 seconds before the pitcher throws the next pitch. That's me. I don't think I will ever change that.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really do see that anywhere I am, whether it's doing interviews a hundred in a row, that every situation I'm in, I'm at choice in the matter.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The old fiction room at my high school was a small box of wonders, and no matter how long I spent investigating its seven and a half overstuffed shelves, I never stopped discovering treasures.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o'clock at night - it doesn't matter.
- Smile
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought, 'It doesn't matter what that woman is wearing,' but then I realised actually it's our job as designers to make women smile; to bring them the chocolate without the calories.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.
- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't matter that I didn't win a trophy because I did it my way and I lived the dream.
- Survive
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- Nov 07, 2020