“I went away with all of my reviews, 20 years of reviews… I read every one. All the negative reviews. I spent two days looking at them.”

Matthew McConaughey · Build or Break · Matthew McConaughey Read 20 Years of Bad Reviews in One Weekend

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Collected all negative reviews from the past 20 years into a thick book and spent two days reading them in the desert

20 years of reviews, 2 days, thick book

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