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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I'm not a good guitar player.
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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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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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It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
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If I wanted to see Jonah Hill masturbate at a pool party, I'd go to one of Jonah Hill's pool parties.
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God is the water, and you are the faucet.
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I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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Not all things worth counting are countable and not all things that count are worth counting.
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If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.
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When you are totally defeated you begin again to enjoy the small things around you. Just going to the mountains, not for victory or glory, but to enjoy nature or enjoy fine people. If you always succeed you enjoy the admiration of many people. Being defeated means being limited to the basis existential choices of life. If you can enjoy the quiet evening hours it is beautiful; a hero who always succeeds may not have time to enjoy such things.
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There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.
