Matthew Tobin Anderson Quotes
A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.
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I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
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Will Smith said if I ever need some help, he was there for me.
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Wes Craven's 'Shocker' is one of my favorite soundtracks. I don't know where that movie stands in the critical eye of cinema, but it was a really fun movie because of all the bands that were part of it.
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We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel.
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To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.
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Pretty much I love all types of fish; I pretty much stick with that. I love vegetables. I don't eat too much carbs, but I love salads, though. I'll usually have a salad, except for breakfast.
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The Illinois Constitution was written before they realized they'd have a city the size of Chicago in the state. The constitution had severe limits on the ability of any city to raise monies through taxes and bonds. When Chicago grew explosively, they had to come up with ways of getting more money to do more things.
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I follow politics very closely. I read several newspapers every day.
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I couldn't swear that I believed in the law - or in the American legal system.
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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
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A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
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The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.
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'SoulPancake' is a website that I founded with a couple of friends, and it is for exploring life's big questions.
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I'd like to go out with friends, but I train twice a day, then I go to school, and at night I go home.
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What God hath wrought?
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The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.
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I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in the studio working, it's just too damn hard.
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I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.
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I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you've really Joeled it up - there's some good periods of Joel; it's not all hot cheese. But I can't judge anyone else for their cheese. I've deep-sea dived in the Gouda.
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To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote.
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Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and practiced in the Russian revolution and in the early days of the Communist International.
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We want to see the Iranians engage, and as you know, we have attempted to bring about that engagement over the course of the last three-plus years. It has not proven effective.
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There was a mood of magic and frenzy to the room. Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails. And then there was the smell-the smell of hope, the kind of smell that brought people home.
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A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.
