Matt Cain Quotes
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The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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I don't care about revenues.
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If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.
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I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
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We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
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When you develop a reputation for being responsive and generous, an ever-expanding mountain of requests will come your way.
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I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through that, I learned that even with fundraisers, libraries often don't make money - they just barely break even.
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I think Sydney has so much natural beauty; it's just a beautiful city.
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I've learned that things change. The whole boy band thing almost turned into a stock market crash.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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At first, I was stubborn about not wanting to become a city boy.
