Matthew Desmond Quotes

Child Protection Services can get all up in your business if you have kids. Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provoke evictions.

Matthew Desmond

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BusinessChildYouUpProtection

I love stories. But I don't distinguish so much between a short story and a novel. Personally, when I sit down to read a novel or a Chekhov story, I'm seeking the same thing: I'm seeking that same rich portrayal of life in words.

Jhumpa Lahiri

LifeLoveWordsStoryRichShort

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

Robert Graves

MoneyPoetryEitherThen

I try to not wash my hair a lot because it takes the moisture out of the hair. If I don't work, I wash it every two or three days. I don't brush my hair after I wash it, and I let dry naturally.

Anna Ewers

WorkHairThreeTryOutDays

Grass is a surface I have always loved, Wimbledon is a tournament I have always loved.

Steffi Graf

LovedGrassAlwaysSurfaceWimbledon

It's not that I can't collaborate. It's just that I don't know how to say no to people. If someone's like, 'Let's write a song together,' it's like, 'You'll write the song, and I'm gonna okay everything.' It's very hard to think that their ideas work with what I'm trying to do.

Soccer Mommy

WorkTogetherPeopleIdeasSongYou

Of course, to publish something, you have to write it, polish it, then hire out the line editing, copy editing and cover design. After which, you pick your way through the minefield of conforming to the differing requirements of Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Smashwords, or hire someone to do it for you.

Ruth Glick

DesignSomeoneYouCopyEditingWay

I don't yearn to be a child again.

Loretta Young

ChildAgainYearn

Sometimes I watch the broad comedies coming out of Hollywood and I think, 'You know, sex is a big part of people's lives, but is that really the only thing men are ever concerned about?' People are more complicated than they appear in film or television.

Josh Radnor

MenPeopleThinkYouTelevisionSex

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.

Chris Hughes

SchoolLeftBeingSouthernStraight

I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.

China Mieville

FailureQualityThinkInteresting

Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.

Cindy Crawford

LookingWake UpUpLikeEvenWake

I don't want to be an actress. I want to be doing good work that is well written and has good people in it.

Claire Danes

WorkGoodPeopleGood WorkDoing

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