Matthew Nable Quotes
By the time I was 23 or 24 and had written the first manuscript of 'The Final Winter', I knew I wanted to make it a career but didn't know how. It took me a long time to grow into myself, but when my love of writing returned, it did so with an enormous amount of venom. It is now a mainstay in my life.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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I view myself as a male artist.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
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We will stand by the Paris climate deal.
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I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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I've never heard anybody [of president's candidates] talk about the poorly educated.
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If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.
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I've been a Ryan Reynolds fan since the first time I saw him.
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By the time I was 23 or 24 and had written the first manuscript of 'The Final Winter', I knew I wanted to make it a career but didn't know how. It took me a long time to grow into myself, but when my love of writing returned, it did so with an enormous amount of venom. It is now a mainstay in my life.
