Matt Cain Quotes
If you stay by the book, it's not always going to work. You've got to venture off a little bit. But you can't get too reckless, either.
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You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
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There is no one true church.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.
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If you dunk your head in cold water, you can't stay under for more than five seconds. I mean, that's it.
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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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I'm constantly seen as a 'foreigner,' and I need my passport to prove my identity, to keep moving and to carry on my work.
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“I was not wholly conscious of myself, but was more keenly alive to the fire within. It was as if I were the activity, and my hands and feet were only experiments for my spirit to work upon.”
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If you stay by the book, it's not always going to work. You've got to venture off a little bit. But you can't get too reckless, either.
