Matthew Desmond Quotes
Eviction reveals people's vulnerability and desperation as well as their ingenuity and guts.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
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If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
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I was born free.
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I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as a career.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
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Bro, how are you going to tap on the neck, on the choke? Go to sleep, man. Be a man.
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It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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The populists are right in one key area: voters want jobs and equitable growth, and can hardly be faulted for that. The challenge is to find a more inclusive growth trajectory that can be sustained economically, ecologically, and politically.
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I never want to get a job because I'm female. I want to get it because I earned it and I deserve it... Whether my hair is going to be blue or purple, people should be judged on how well they do the job and deliver results and whether they do it the right way. That's how I like to be judged; most people are like that.
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I like the idea of letting the music do its own work and the stories being more expressionful - if that's a word - in people's imagination. I've just got a thing about people and songs telling you how you should feel.
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Eviction reveals people's vulnerability and desperation as well as their ingenuity and guts.
