Matt Gonzalez Quotes
I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings. That led to collaging some of the work I had done on paper, and I found myself mixing in found pieces as well.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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It's so important to get your skin to look even, whether it's with a MAC Cosmetics glow, a Laura Mercier tinted moisturizer, or even just a solid foundation. Start off with a good prep and a good primer.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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About two hundred or two hundred and fifty years after the death of Grettir, his history was committed to writing, and then it became fixed - nothing further was added to it, and we have his story after having travelled down over two hundred years as a tradition.
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I don't think Christ becomes real to us until we hit a low point in our lives and realize just how much we need Him. That's why faith affects every area of your life.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.
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Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
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My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.
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One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.
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The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.
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You can change my mind, but you gotta work harder at it.
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I just wanted Sadness to be true, to come from a real place. I tried to work from the inside out, going from my gut all the time. I didn't over-analyze it. I just did it.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.
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I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings. That led to collaging some of the work I had done on paper, and I found myself mixing in found pieces as well.
