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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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
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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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Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
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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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It wasn't just Shia that would go to Tehran and see the commander of the Quds Force and others and the legitimate government leaders. It was also Kurdish leaders and Sunni Arabs who would even link up with Qassim Suleimani, the commander of the Quds Force - maybe not in Tehran but in Turkey or somewhere else.
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I'm just glad I've had these opportunities to be geeks in some really awesome movies.
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If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassable, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is, must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible.
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My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.
