Mat Kearney Quotes
I've always been a writer. I've always done writing or spoken-word, hip-hop stuff with my friends.
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I've worked so hard since I was 18 years old, and I'd hate for the memories to be boiled down to being a Melania Trump impersonator.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.
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I think we're in a time when people are much more interested in a show than where you find it.
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People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.
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I feel comfortable whenever I step on the floor.
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While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while it encourages the growth of innumerable small businesses on its periphery, thereby creating more jobs.
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Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound.
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I've always been a writer. I've always done writing or spoken-word, hip-hop stuff with my friends.
