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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The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.
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Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
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The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.
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Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.
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I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.
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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.