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Matthew Desmond Quotes

'Sag Harbor' brought me a new readership - it's a coming of age tale about growing up in the '80s.

Matthew Desmond

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: sociologist
Nationality: american

Topics

Age Me Growing Up New Growing Up

It's quite clear we've got strong franchises at the core of this company.

John L. Flannery

Strong Company Got Core Clear Quite

I was having these terrible back pains, and then one day in Switzerland, things got very bad. My wife Maryanna called the hotel doctor, but I don't remember any of this, I was out of it. I had an operation, and I was nearly lost.

Day Wife Doctor Hotel Remember Bad

I hadn't thought about that before, this passionate following, with fan fiction and artwork. At first it felt like an invasion of privacy, but then I realized it's nice that the character can be shared.

Alycia Debnam-Carey

Character Thought Privacy Nice First

A lot of my comic influences are distinctly American: Woody Allen and Bob Hope, for example. They were always the underdogs who were using wit to sort of battle their way through. And it seems to me that a lot of contemporary U.S. comedies are shot through with losers. None of the characters in 'The Big Bang Theory,' for instance, are studs.

Stephen Merchant

Hope Me Battle American Way Wit

Cohabitation seems a greater leap in cities because it's all the harder to extract oneself if things turn sour. It's what keeps otherwise functional adults living with their mothers.

Living Leap Turn Things Mothers

The Islamic Revolution of Iran has been killing Americans, hundreds of Americans, for 35 years in Iraq and Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.

Revolution Years Been Lebanon Saudi

Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do.

Roy H. Williams

Business Young Mature Grows Large

I'm always coming up with ideas that have been inspired by memories, everyday life and this and that and the other.

Lucinda Williams

Life Memories Ideas Everyday Always

I'd done plays in middle school, done some for the church in high school, but I had no intention of ever being a professional actor.

School High School Church Intention

I'm a girl who's curvy, and I'm Latvian, but I don't have hips, and I have a tiny waist.

Girl Curvy Waist Hips Tiny

Well, I have a Norwegian father who emigrated to America in the 1950s, and he still speaks with varying degrees of an accent. Over my lifetime my ear has been well-tuned to that accent. Any first generation kid has that wonderful gift from their parents.

Christopher Heyerdahl

Father Parents Gift Generation Kid

Everyone loved Steve Jobs and the idea of Steve Jobs. Like a lot of people, I loved a man I never knew.

Man People Loved Never Everyone

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