Harry Mathews Quotes
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I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.
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You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous.
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Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.
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Whether it's one scene or 15 scenes in a film, whether it's the lead or a cameo part, if I don't find it interesting, I tend not to do it. You never really know what it is. It could be a one-scene part. I remember I read the one scene in Crash and was asked to do it. I was like, "Absolutely!" There's no formula for how something has to be. I always try to keep it that way.
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This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.
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Don't stop short of your goal.
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There are no more barbershop quartets wearing boaters, even though I still like them. Life goes on.
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Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
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Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.
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Mine stands for B*Witched!
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Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.
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We have severely underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality.
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The Way teaches that people outside the cult are evil - of the Devil. In line with that belief, the members tried to alienate me from my family, to whom I am very close, and from my friends. So I just drifted away. In seeing my three-month involvement as 'just a phase,' my parents were lucky rather than wise.
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David Bowie's music is a moving target. Just when you think you got the bullseye, it shifts. And to his credit, on to death, it's still shifting. David Bowie is a moving target, even after he's gone.
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The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented... They come from inventing new questions!
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Opportunity – I really love the idea of creating, exploring and inventing and staying interested in all opportunities that come my way.
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The pursuit is everything, the doing of it, the expressing, not the outcome, but the creation of it.
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In August 1994, I was invited to have dinner with House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich. At that time, I was a senior engineer working for Martin Marietta Astronautics in Denver, where I had been responsible for inventing a new plan called 'Mars Direct.'
