Richard Matheson Quotes
I hope people are reading my work in the future. I hope I have done more than frightened a couple of generations. I hope I've inspired a few people one way or another.
Quotes to Explore
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.
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Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work.
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A library implies an act of faith.
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Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
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Apple has made this commitment that it's a green company. So how do you fulfill your commitment if you don't consider you have responsibility in your suppliers' pollution?
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Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripatetic crusaders like Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Sojourner Truth, Dorothy Dix.
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The Sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
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'20 million other white rappers emerge, but no matter how many fish in the sea, it'll be so empty without me!'
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I don't come from a well-off family. We're very middle-class, lower-middle-class, so that's something I cherish.
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I think a lot of young girls go through that period in their life of finding who they are, and at that point, looking good matters the most.
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Dentists seem to me very orderly, businesslike people who appear to become somewhat bored with the routine of their work after a period of time. Perhaps I'm wrong.
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'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There's a thread running down the Fugard line of alcoholism. Thankfully I haven't passed it on to my child, a wonderful daughter who's stone-cold sober. But I had the tendency from my father, just as he had had it from his father.
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When it comes to individual bloggers, they have many choices now that include blogging for a network or going solo.
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The idea of insider information to me is almost, like, laughable.
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Are you waiting for success to arrive, or are you going out to find where it is hiding?
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Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.
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I hope people are reading my work in the future. I hope I have done more than frightened a couple of generations. I hope I've inspired a few people one way or another.
