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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Not listening to people who care about you, not to be open or transparent, will make you isolated.
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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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I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'
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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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'Ray Donovan' is very dark and very serious. As actors will tell you, the darker and more serious the material, the more jokes that go around set. It's a counterbalance.
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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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Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.
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No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all go bad when they set up on their own and make themselves into false gods.
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It's just a great feeling, once you have a child.
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My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.
