Matthew Quick Quotes
I'm an incredibly emotional person, but I always feel bad about that. The work is therapy... I need to emote wildly while I write. I weep. I'll laugh, get excited, and get up and pace. I try to take the emotional journey with the characters.
Quotes to Explore
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
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Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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Panic is a horrible thing.
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Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.
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Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
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Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.
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Songs of different moods are like keys, which help me enter the world of my book's characters.
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Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.
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It's not hard to get into a teen's head, because it's all emotions. Their feelings are amplified; you have no luxury of hindsight. If you haven't had your heart broken before, you don't know that you'll be able to get back up again.
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I think each track tells a different story about what I'm going through. But overall it's just me being young, my love of alcohol, and my love of turning up.
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The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained, best equipped fighting forces in the world.
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I'm an incredibly emotional person, but I always feel bad about that. The work is therapy... I need to emote wildly while I write. I weep. I'll laugh, get excited, and get up and pace. I try to take the emotional journey with the characters.
