Matthew Desmond Quotes
Eviction reveals people's vulnerability and desperation as well as their ingenuity and guts.
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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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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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The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.
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Looking back at it now, any objective account of my life is bound to read like a cross between 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and a travel brochure.
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Growing up, I never felt like the pretty girl.
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I feel like as you blossom more, you become more mature, and I'm definitely excited for whatever life has to throw at me, and knowing me, I'm definitely going to be sharing it all.
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I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.
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I guess I remembered clearest of all the early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless, remembered how the bedroom smelled of the lumber it was made of and of the wet woods whose scent entered through the screen.
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Eviction reveals people's vulnerability and desperation as well as their ingenuity and guts.
