Matthew Quick Quotes
I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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My parents could not be more Italian.
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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
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One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless.
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I really have a passion for food. Of course, music, but behind that, it's food.
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He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.
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We realize that Judaism as a faith can survive only in an atmosphere of general faith.
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There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.
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The 19th-century pure capitalist model of society was a pyramid, concentrations of enormous wealth in a small group at the top, a not very big middle-class in the middle, and an enormous percentage of the population in the bottom part of the pyramid.
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Dream that you died It takes you out of your mind The black walls of space Take me all the way
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In the writers' room, I know the difference when someone brushes up against me and makes a sexist crack and when they've stepped over the line and made me feel uncomfortable and unsafe.
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I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.
