Matthew Desmond Quotes

There is a deep connection, when we're talking about certain market forces and a legal structure that inhibits low or moderate income families from getting ahead. Eviction is part of a business model at the bottom of the market.

Matthew Desmond

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While we're having all these debates about how the book is being destroyed by the Kindle, we have to remember that narrative will not be affected at all because it's part of our makeup as a creature on this planet.

Jim Crace

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That larger story in 'Salvage the Bones' is just about survival, and I think that, in the end, there are things about this novel and about these characters' experiences that make their stories universal stories.

Jesmyn Ward

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I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them.

Jessica Chastain

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Having been in football all my life as a player and a coach and having been on the sideline, I think the closer we can get to bringing people what it's like standing and watching the game on the sideline, with a better view, would be the perfect situation for television football.

John Madden

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You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way.

Robert Rodriguez

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There's not a lot of flash about me.

Anna Deavere Smith

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Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.

Sol LeWitt

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If there is any hope that we in America might one day overcome our own history of genocide, slavery, discrimination, and oppression and create a justice system that is truly a source of international pride rather than shame, I suspect Rwanda may have as much to teach us about what is required as any tour of a Norwegian prison.

Michelle Alexander

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You've got to give more than you take.

Christopher Reeve

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I tell you, man, I'm every bit as a 'Star Wars' fan as anyone else.

Colin Trevorrow

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Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

Clifford D. Simak

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Either you've got the bug, or you haven't. There are many things I'd rather be doing than writing a book.

Clive Cussler

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