Harry Mathews Quotes
My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.
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I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
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I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
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I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.
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To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
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I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We were always trying to get the perfect vocal.
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You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.
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This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.
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When I look at a film, I don't think, 'Oh, I wish I had done that' because I haven't done that role, so it doesn't matter.
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I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual florescence. They are also a vast root system growing down into ideas and understandings. Almost unbidden, they tap into the history and evolution of art and language.
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Cheerleader roles are really not my thing. I want things that are weird or not typical.
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To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
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Strange as it may seem to those who have read much of the screwball side of Hollywood life, I have never had to fight against an impulse to jump into a swimming-pool while dressed for the opera.
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From now on, the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. That doesn't mean, of course, that the Pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued.
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
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Only when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired do any of us do something different.
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Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.
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My record of opposition to illegal immigration is unquestioned.
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My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.
