Matthew Desmond Quotes
The home is the center of life - a refuge from the grind of work, pressure of school, menace of the streets, a place to be ourselves.
Matthew Desmond
Quotes to Explore
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I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
Yul Brynner
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
Aaron Neville
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
Patrick Wilson
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I really feel that the best actors out there are very centric. They're really connected. They're not in a, 'What about me' state, and I think that's a good lesson in life.
Cameron Mathison
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I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
Lana Del Rey
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We had a few non-fiction books at home, but my dad was of the opinion that fiction was a complete and utter waste of time because it wasn't real - so what was the point of reading it?
Malorie Blackman
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There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.
Jill Robinson
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'Georgie doesn't like babies do you Georgie? Some days, Georgie, I think you behave like a bloke.'
Peter Greenaway
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You have a certain objectivity, as a member of the audience, and you can come away maybe being provoked into a certain discourse or a certain arena of questioning, regarding how you would deal with things that your character has to deal with. Whereas when you're doing a film, once you start asking, "What would I do?," you're getting the distance greater between yourself and the character, or you're bringing the character to you, which I think is self-serving, in the wrong way. The idea is to bring yourself to the character.
Colin Farrell
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There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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The home is the center of life - a refuge from the grind of work, pressure of school, menace of the streets, a place to be ourselves.
Matthew Desmond