Dan Mathews Quotes
I'd like to be remembered by two simple words: any two words, as long as they're simple.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
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Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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I'm old enough to chew my peas and corn without choking.
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I come with bad genetics, personally.
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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You get freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get your freedom; then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.
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In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men’s behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction
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I don't know how long I'll be competing, but I'll always be surfing. I'll be surfing until I'm old.
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If you truly are going to be a writer, there must be somewhere within you the drive, the desire, to put pen to paper, fingers to keyboard, and actually write.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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A celebrity has just as much right to speak out as people who hold real jobs. This is America, after all, and you should not be precluded from voicing your opinions just because you sing songs, mouth other peoples' words on a sitcom or, for that matter, spin a giant multi-colored wheel on a game show.
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I'd like to be remembered by two simple words: any two words, as long as they're simple.
