Harry Mathews Quotes
Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.
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Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.
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As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower.
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Hugo Boss is my kind of label.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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There's no time for boys in my life right now.
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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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I've got a fantastic life. I enjoy what I do for a living. I see the blessings; I'm not blind.
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I loved watching so many of the great designers I've worked with do what they do. That's why I'm still loyal to the designers that I've known since I was 16.
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I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.
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Fuel your kids' dreams. Sometimes, that means letting them stay up past their bedtimes.
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The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.
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There is a triple layer of jargon when writing about climate change. You have the scientists, who are very cautious now because of the amount of climate denial. Then you have the U.N. jargon - I had to carry around a glossary of terms. It was like an alphabet soup.
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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
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If you're undercover for two or three years, I think you lose your private life.
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Bourbon's the only drink. You can take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English Channel. Well, why wait 80 years before you can drink the stuff? Great vineyards, huge barrels aging forever, poor little old monks running around testing it, just so some woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma can say it tickles her nose.
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I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.
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I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest.
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There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.
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If they ever let me in the ring with him (Cassius Clay), I'm liable to be put away for murder.
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Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.
