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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No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked.
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I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.
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Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their officers. Strangely enough, when the President was a corporate officer, he took out several loans from the company.
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Modern low temperature physics began with the liquefaction of helium by Kamerlingh Onnes and the discovery of superconductivity at the University of Leiden in the early part of the 20th century.
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We question these issues of race and struggle and white privilege because we know that those issues are real and because those issues have real implications in black communities. And white supremacy is not only dangerous, but it is deadly.
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I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.
