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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Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.
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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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I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
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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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Dad was joyful until the day he died, and I think that joy was deeply rooted in his love affair with God.
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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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I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial.
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160 million-plus people call themselves Christians. They go to church once a month at least. That's a lot of people.
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I had gone through game, after game, after game, first being a professor at Harvard, then being a psychedelic spokesman, and still people were constantly looking into my eyes, like 'Do you know?' Just that subtle little look, and I was constantly looking into their eyes 'Do you know?'
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I don't really need a personal trainer or watch what I eat. I can't start the day without a hot chocolate or finish it without a few squares of dark chocolate. It's good for my mood!
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My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.
