Dan Mathews Quotes
I'd like to be remembered by two simple words: any two words, as long as they're simple.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I'm a very spontaneous person, for the bad and the good.
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I want to be Jacques Pepin. I want to have a nice 50-, 60-year career. I want to be on PBS when I'm 70-something, still kicking it, having a great time, showing up in Aspen to sign cookbooks. I just want to have a nice, big, long career.
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I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.
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I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family.
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writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're a harassed tribe, we writers.
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I'd like to be remembered by two simple words: any two words, as long as they're simple.
