Matthew Prior Quotes
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Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.
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If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.
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An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebenezer Scrooge with OCD, Sherlock Holmes with autism, and Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder.
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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
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Working with the same people is so much quicker and frees up your energy for other things.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic.
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Self-justification is a treacherous servant.
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Idiots. They were losing everything because of their short-sightedness. Maybe they deserved to lose it.
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I was the last to know what was happening to me. Or at least I was the last to know that I knew.
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I need the Lord's guidance on what to do... I asked God for wisdom.
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…of course, keep-fit people are no good in bed…
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My mom and dad decided to homeschool us - I'm one of eight - because they really wanted us to be outside and learn some other fundamentals instead of it being school all day in a classroom.
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I have always needed other musicians to bounce off.
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My aunt Julie was a production manager, and she heard of an opening. Some show was looking for children to run around the house or whatever. I auditioned and got the part, and I showed up in all of my monstrous energy, bouncing everywhere like an electron.
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After all those years of doing a live, hour-and-a-half show every week, I've got nothing more I need to prove.
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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
