Harry Mathews Quotes
There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.
Quotes to Explore
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Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.
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I am a romantic, and I think dates are wonderful. I like quirky and fun things. Like going for a bike ride or for a pedicure together.
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What is a Muslim neighborhood? How many Muslims have to be in a neighborhood before it becomes worthy of checking papers and kicking in the doors of homes and businesses?
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I'm not a good guitar player.
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I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the great musical traditions which I've spawned.
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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
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My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
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One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
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I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.
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I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.
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A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.
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You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.
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MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network.
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If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny.
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Life as a poet and actor truly became full circle as I stood on stage as host of 'Verses & Flow' and lived in both of these outfits. It was one of the best experiences of my professional life.
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The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborghini to the Grand Prix track to watch the charter buses race.
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It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
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I swore that I would never say I miss you more everyday but, some things are better left unsaid...
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Nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.
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Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
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I felt squeezed in that vise along with the mass of everyday things and people, and I had a bad taste in my mouth, a permanent sense of nausea that exhausted me, as if everything, thus compacted, and always tighter, were grinding me up, reducing me to a repulsive cream.
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There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.
