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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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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I think the stakes are always high when you're an artist of color - to get things right, to get things perfect and make everybody happy.
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I don't cling to earthly life because I believe in eternal life. That's the big distinction between my point of view and a purely secular position.
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Books keep the mind active. Without them, complacency is a huge danger.
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I worked in a lot of cinemas when I was at college, and I'm a movie dork, and it's a nice thing to do while you're on tour. Everything is different a lot of the time - you're never in the same place - but I like going to the cinema because it feels like no matter where you are, the experience is really the same.
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Most of the time, I'm not scared. I get on with life, not because I'm a fatalist, but because that's the most congenial way of dealing with things. Indeed, most of the time, I'm not conscious of dealing with anything.
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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.
