Matthew Desmond Quotes
Just as incarceration has come to define the lives of low-income black men, eviction is defining the lives of low-income black women.
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I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.
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I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.
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I think that life in Israel is sometimes bigger than the movies.
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I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
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It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
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I love action movies.
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I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'
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The aim of a nuclear-transplant experiment is to insert the nucleus of a specialized cell into an unfertilized egg whose nucleus has been removed.
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My mother had Alzheimer's, and it's a desperately, desperately cruel thing to witness.
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I wear a lot of black, but not in the goth way, I just really love black. I'll never be in pink or purples.
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
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The thinking of the one, therefore, will be determined by eternal truth, the actions of the other more by the practical reality of the moment. The greatness of the one lies in the absolute abstract soundness of his idea.
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Just as incarceration has come to define the lives of low-income black men, eviction is defining the lives of low-income black women.
