- Pollution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Matter Quotes
On what actually counts.
This page starts with a striking reframe of confinement as something that can happen mentally even to people who are physically free, and pairs it with career advice about simply landing that first entry-level role. For related thinking, see Life.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are interesting tensions that will naturally occur with any relationship. No matter what setting, what era, the tension is very, very real. It's basic human tension.
- Anomaly
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Ruined' was a play which was somewhat of an anomaly in that I did not take a commission until it was finished because I really wanted to explore the subject matter unencumbered. Otherwise, I felt as though I'd have the voice of dramaturges and literary managers saying, 'This is great, but we'll never be able to produce it.'
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
However long, it's definitely the presence of other people that brings out the weirdness - that collision of your own way of being with the everyday lives of others, the abrupt awareness - always a surprise no matter how often it's happened - that their lives are very different from your own.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you set your story in Rome, Ireland or Sheboygan, for that matter, go there. If you're broke, set it in the town where you live, or where you grew up.
- Big Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
- Credit
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.
- Direct Contact
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended on direct contact with matter in the water or the air.
- Fishes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even in the lives of fishes, sensation is seldom a matter of one thing or another. Senses overlap. The lines between them often tend to be blurred, and the best that we can manage, by way of description from the outside, is to say that the senses of fishes appear to dominate one at a time.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like to hurt people's feelings, and I don't like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's important for me to understand more about my swing and my game, no matter who I end up working with.
- Nov 07, 2020
My motto is, if you love something, don't set it free. No matter how hard it struggles. That would be stupid.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a player coming into Manchester United, I've got to adapt like every other, no matter how old I am.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For young people, it doesn't matter so much, but when you're older, less is definitely more - too much make-up can give you the 'eccentric Aunt Sally' look!
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020