Matthew Green Quotes
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I worked at CNN for almost 26 years. I worked in Mutual Radio for 20 years. I've been in the business 57 years. I have never seen a bias off the air or on.
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My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
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In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
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As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.
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I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
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I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.
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'Giving 2.0' is about making your giving matter more to the people we all hope to help, and it's about making your giving matter more to you.
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When you have very lax parents, you tend to get more conservative kids.
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Theocratic and military authorities share one thing: they have no sense of humour.
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When we were in D.C. my daddy used to cut his hair with a bowl. Crucial. If you're African, Haitan, Jamaican or even more poor than the people in the project, you'll know about that.
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I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.
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He exuded confidence without ever looking as is he wanted to make sure everyone else knew how confident he was.
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The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future, concentrated into Gertrude's voice, became one of red clay pine-barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks.
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It's an intangible thing, this thing we call talent, especially if we're in a position to teach and mentor others.
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Writers want to be reread. They want to think that their words don't just flash by but deserve some reflection.
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History is anomalous, and there is no way to get used to it.
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Employ in everything a certain casualness which conceals art and creates the impression that what is done and said is accomplished without effort and without its being thought about. It is from this, in my opinion, that grace largely derives.
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In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded.
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Fling but a stone, the giant dies.
