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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I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.
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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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I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.
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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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Certain black leaders would believe that you have to go through their prism: 'If I lay my hand on you, you're OK.' So many people have made a living off of the pimping of race.
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My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.
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Madame Chairman, I presume this is to sweep Britain clean of socialism
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I have connected by phone with customers who have left negative reviews and had a chance to get to know them. Not only was I able to solve their problems, a lot of the customers were so happy with the customer service that they become repeat customers.
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I obviously love to run the ball.
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I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.
