Jeffrey C. Mateer Quotes
Why couldn't four people want to get married? Why not one man and three women or three women and one man? I mean, it's disgusting.
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.
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Some people say to be an actor you've got to die to do it. I think it's healthy if you think, 'I'll do it if it works, and if I don't, I can do something else.' That way seems to work for me.
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I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.
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In the summer of 1902, I was able to erect two experimental stations on two forts at Strasbourg for the purpose of closer study.
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I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.
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You ingest the automobile in the very air of Detroit. Or at least you did in the 1940s and 1950s.
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I remember going to a son's friend's bar mitzvah, and the text that he chose to explicate was right at the beginning of Genesis. It was not about a fall from grace or a fall from perfection; it was about an awakening into consciousness, which is what it means to be human.
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Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I like the first-person singular because I have to imitate accurately the voice of someone who is not like me. The third-person singular gives me an authority over a character.
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I think a lot of people get so obsessed with the wedding and the expense of the wedding that they miss out on what the real purpose is. It's not about a production number, it's about a meaningful moment between two people that's witnessed by people that they actually really know and care about.
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Why couldn't four people want to get married? Why not one man and three women or three women and one man? I mean, it's disgusting.
