Matthew Desmond Quotes

When I left Milwaukee, and I had all these stories. I felt so responsible for people. It's a heck of a thing to do, to try to write someone's story.

Matthew Desmond

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PeopleStorySomeoneTryResponsible

New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

Michael Arad

WorkLiveNew YorkPlaceNewGoing

If my role in a film is meaty, and I get a good song along with it, then why not?

Amy Jackson

GoodSongWhyFilmGetRole

Any opera is interesting if the characters are worth seeing.

Stephen Paulus

InterestingWorthSeeingOperaAny

That's a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous.

Shirley Manson

YourselfRebelRidiculousDifficult

Pilot season's such a strange time. You get such a concentrated amount of scripts. A lot of them become white noise after a while. When something really pops, it becomes apparent very quickly. I'm quite instinctive about that. I know, normally by about 10 pages in, whether I want to do something or not.

Tom Ellis

TimeYouWhiteKnowWantBecome

I never said I enjoy anything about using the Internet. I enjoy helping the entrepreneurs who are building this thing that I don't necessarily like or use.

Ron Conway

BuildingInternetEnjoySaidNever

I'm quite a reserved person, a bit shy at first when I don't know someone. I like to have a laugh and a joke; people have seen that in me.

Anthony Martial

PeopleMeLaughSomeonePersonKnow

I was a publicist for other people's movies.

Ava DuVernay

PeopleMoviesOtherPublicist

It was probably right after I made my comeback - after retiring post-2008 Olympics - when I finally felt more at ease with my body. Being away from the sport helped put things in perspective.

Alicia Sacramone

PerspectiveComebackBodyMoreRight

A tall, broad-shouldered man with dark skin and a gap tooth - I wasn't the image of 'old Hollywood beauty.'

Winston Duke

BeautyManDarkSkinHollywoodTall

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare

GoodWinLoseTraitorsUsDoubts

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

William Kingdon Clifford

GoodCommon SenseBadSoundDepend

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