Matt Hughes Quotes
Writing the first draft is like hitting the beach on D Day. You don't stop to mourn the dead or comfort the wounded. You get off the beach because, if you don't, you'll die there.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.
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I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.
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You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
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We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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People come over, and we watch things like 'The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.' I have a hot tub. Everybody puts on a bathing suit and we splash around.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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At Uniqlo, we're thinking ahead. We're thinking about how to create new, innovative products... and sell that to everyone.
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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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They hate whom they fear.
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It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
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One predictor for divorce is contempt, which to me is just another word for disrespect.
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Their problem was how to adapt English principles and precedents to the new conditions of American life, and they solved it with singular discretion. They put as many obstacles as they could contrive, not in the way of the people's will, but of their whim.
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It's smarter to look at portions than to count calories.
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'I knew God had heard my prayer when I learned that it was you and no other who drew this case.''One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?'
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A president of the United States should not have a racist at his side - unacceptable.
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Writing the first draft is like hitting the beach on D Day. You don't stop to mourn the dead or comfort the wounded. You get off the beach because, if you don't, you'll die there.
