Harry Mathews Quotes
My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.
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There is always pressure in football.
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The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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It's a classic album. If it ain't better than 'The Truth,' it's right there with it. I wouldn't say it if I ain't think so, 'cause 'The Truth' was my baby. That's the pure album.
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When I wrote 'The Da Vinci Code,' I told myself that this story of Jesus makes more sense to me than the story I read in the Bible.
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I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
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I hyper-analyze everything; I'm always in my head. Those moments where you don't think and you're just part of the environment did not come easily to me, but it was those moments and highs that I chased.
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Be very nervous of the shaky hands.
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My former health minister, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, is like a peach. I love to eat him.
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Judy Garland, Doris Day, and Gene Kelly were all big influences growing up from all of the films. I'm also a huge folk music fan - Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan have influenced a lot of how music can inspire change in our world.
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I do most of my shopping over the Internet because as a busy working mum I can do the supermarket shop when the kids have gone to bed.
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People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for.
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You know what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars.
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Way back in October 2007, I had urged thousands of Australians to vote for Kevin Rudd and Peter Garrett's Labor Party. Why? Because they promised to get tough on illegal Japanese whaling.
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If you have other gods before the Lord, your heart will be turned away from serving the only true and living God, who requires the whole heart, the undivided affections. All the heart, all the soul, all the mind, and all the strength, does God require. He will accept of nothing short of this.
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I shouldn't be saying this, high treason really, but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting a brilliance that may not really be there.
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I think if there's a support system in place, and you're acting adult-to-adult with a sense of unconditional love and forgiveness, only good things will come from any relationship between men and women.
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I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggle with the attention; I'm generally a pretty shy kind of a person. So it's tough figuring out how to manage it. But there are ways of managing it, and you just have to be smart.
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A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.
