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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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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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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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
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I'm not a foodie - I'm an eater: I'm hungry.
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You achieve long-term success step by step. Try to achieve your goals one at a time, like you do target practice.
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There's a relationship in the reality with how theater is presented - you can't experience that anywhere else. When you mess up, you mess up obviously, when you sweat, you sweat obviously, when you cry, you cry obviously. There's no hiding in theater.
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Experience is a safe guide.
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Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion.
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You don't know me, but I know about you...I can't make you live longer. I can't stop you from hurting. But I can give you one wish, as someone did for me.
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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.
