Matthew Desmond Quotes

You do learn how to cope from those who are coping.

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• Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Up
  • Art
  • Walking

• I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Trying
  • Words
  • Mom

• Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Enough
  • Impossible
  • Most

• Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Most
  • Mother`s
  • Philosophers

• Obviously, I love country music, so I wanna be able to live in the country music genre and then play to country music fans.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Live
  • Country

• I enjoy roles that are quite physical.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Enjoy
  • Roles
  • Physical

• I think there's too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Think
  • Color
  • Thanks

• In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People

• The flames roll'd on­-he would not goWithout his father's word;That father, faint in death below,His voice no longer heard.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Father
  • Death

• I think of myself as an actor and not a movie star. I like doing movies; I enjoy it. But, essentially, I'm a theater actor. That's the only place I feel like I actually am a star. In the theater, I can put people in the seats and sell tickets.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Movie
  • Star

• Now hollow fires burn out to black,And lights are guttering low:Square your shoulders, lift your pack,And leave your friends and go.Oh never fear, man, nought's to dread,Look not to left nor right:In all the endless road you treadThere's nothing but the night.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Black

• I think that 'God & Guns' turned out a little more 'country' than we wanted it to be.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • God
  • Country

• To join in the industrial revolution, you needed to open a factory; in the Internet revolution, you need to open a laptop.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • Revolution

• I definitely could not write a character that was cruel or unconcerned with animal welfare. For me, not just as a writer but for the person I am, I love animals.

  

  Lori Foster
  • Character
  • Animal

• I've always been into 'fast-paced, don't bore 'em, keep it moving along, stick with the story.' You know: tell a story the way I want to hear a story. I find it more rewarding to write for kids, but I also find it a little easier, because you can just let loose a little bit more in terms of fantasy and stuff.

  

  James Patterson
  • Kids
  • Moving

• I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.

  

  Benjamin F. Wade
  • World
  • Men
  • Free

• My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in 'To Kill A Mockingbird': You see him where he's on the porch, and his face is almost completely obscured. I don't want to see his face.

  

  Mary-Louise Parker

• I've never been a label-obsessed person. I indulge in shoes, but I rarely will ever buy full-price.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Shoes

• I hate my arms. If I wear a nice dress, I can't go strapless or sleeveless because my arms just aren't feminine.

  

  Bryony Shaw
  • Hate
  • Nice

• I can read a four-page scene once and have it memorized. It's a skill you learn in school: disposable cramming.

  

  Blake Lively
  • School

• There are three types of words: words we all know, words we should know, and words nobody knows. Don't use the third category.

  

  John Grisham
  • Words

• I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Gone
  • Bands
  • Had

• The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world's information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • World
  • Internet
  • Cameras

• You do learn how to cope from those who are coping.

  

  Matthew Desmond