Matt de la Pena Quotes
A lot of people ask me, 'Are you born a writer?' And I don't think it's necessarily true. I just think what you either have or you don't is this ability to see something that's complex and worth talking about.
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I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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Television can be a little tricky in terms of finding roles that feel fully flushed out, which is why I love being in the theater so much, because the roles tend to be really on the page.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I don't like attacking.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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I had always been fascinated by the whole idea that Australia was this different ecology and that when rabbits and prickly pears and other things from Europe were introduced into Australia, they ran amok.
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I don't want to bust my butt for the rest of my life, like my parents.
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I was shooting in the low 70s and 60s by the time I was 12. That's the great thing about golf. It doesn't matter how old or young you are. If you're 90 and can shoot a good score, people will want to play with you.
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Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.
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A lot of people ask me, 'Are you born a writer?' And I don't think it's necessarily true. I just think what you either have or you don't is this ability to see something that's complex and worth talking about.
