Matt Roper Quotes
Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.' My relatives seem to drop like flies around me. Who's next? Will it be someone I can't stand?
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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In the face of postwar austerity, hundreds of brides-to-be across the country sent Princess Elizabeth their clothing coupons so that she could have the dress of their dreams.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
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If I splurge on anything, it's cologne. I love smelling good.
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South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.
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When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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I'm not questioning Dick Cheney's motives. There's a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into Baghdad. Then he was out of office and involved in the defense industry, and then he became for going into Baghdad.
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I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
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When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.
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I wanted passionately to be a priest.
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The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is matched only by my envy.
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The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
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I feel very comfortable - literally and metaphorically - in my skin.
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Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.' My relatives seem to drop like flies around me. Who's next? Will it be someone I can't stand?
