Matt de la Pena Quotes
Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.
Matt de la Pena
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
J. G. Ballard
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
Larry Hovis
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Abraham Lincoln
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If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
Adam Jones
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
Madeleine Stowe
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I miss baseball.
Dale Murphy
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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
Baltasar Gracian
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I was a mad, impressionable kid, and every skit from 'The College Dropout' was telling me how I didn't need school.
Chance The Rapper
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It was at home I learned the little I know. Schools always appeared to me like a prison, and never could I make up my mind to stay there, not even for four hours a day, when the sunshine was inviting, the sea smooth, and when it was joy to run about the cliffs in the free air, or to paddle in the water.
Claude Monet
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When I was first elected to the House in 2006, it was important to me to send a clear message to the people of NY-20: I wanted to be a representative for the people and shed some light on their government, so I became the first member of Congress to post my schedule, my financial disclosures and my earmark requests all online.
Kirsten Gillibrand
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You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.
Pierce Brosnan
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Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.
Matt de la Pena
