Matthew Quick Quotes
I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.
Quotes to Explore
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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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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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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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When my father went back into the military in 1947 and was gone for 3-1/2 years, my mother was 24 years old with four kids in a town she didn't know that well with no military services available, no family services available through the military, and that was the norm.
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Authors all have at least one thing in common, which is that when we finally get finished copies of our books, we get giddy as kindergartners. We touch them constantly, and build towers with them, and take pictures of our cats and dogs reading them.
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I feel really lucky that I'm able to pursue the work that I love. I want my children to see that. I want them to have that for themselves, something that they love, that they do, that they pursue in their lives as a way of growing and learning.
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I was raised in a family where no one had a serious bone in their body and every answer was a riddle, a joke, or a prank.
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It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.
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I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.
