Matthew Desmond Quotes

I fought fires in the summer, and then I went back and did it again when I went to graduate school.

Matthew Desmond

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SchoolBackSummerGraduate School

I believe that to further strategic growth and development via design, we need to have a set of public design policies.

Jens Martin Skibsted

GrowthBelieveDesignDevelopment

If you see a gaggle of teenagers walking towards you, you tend not to make eye contact, because you know they're going to recognise you. You learn to adapt: 99.999 per cent of people aren't looking to be harmful or unpleasant; they just want something, a photograph or an autograph.

Robert Sheehan

PeopleLookingEyeLearnWalking

For me, as a writer, I desperately want to be read. I'm very conscious of readers as I'm writing. I think, 'If you write for yourself, then why don't you just keep it under the bed,' so I definitely write for other people.

Matt Haig

YourselfPeopleMeWritingThink

It's the idea that anticipation is as scary as anything in a movie could be. People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.

Matt Reeves

ImaginationPeopleCreatingAnything

Charlie Sykes - someone none of us have ever heard of - is suddenly the star of MSNBC and CNN once he comes out against Trump.

Ann Coulter

SomeoneOutStarAgainstUsHe

There have been many socially conscious concept albums. I wanted to make a 'social consciousness' concept album disguised as a country record.

Sturgill Simpson

CountryConsciousnessSocialBeen

A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees.

Tomie dePaola

ArtDoorWorldSmallBookPicture

I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.

Tom Lehrer

PeopleInterestingFlatteryAlways

I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh.

Rosamund Pike

IdeasThinkLaughYouKnowActor

I've never been able to write a movie script. I respect that skill so much, but it's not been the way my brain works.

Mary Steenburgen

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I was actually a huge tomboy growing up.

Julia Jones

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I don't write any kind of sequel or remake.

Bong Joon-ho

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