Matthew Quick Quotes

I was writing full time after quitting a job as a high school English teacher, and I hadn't been able to sell anything, and my bank account was down to zero, and all of my friends were like 'What are you doing in the basement, when are you going to get a real job?', and my parents thought I'd completely lost it.

Matthew Quick

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 23, 1973

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What I do now, when I'm taking on a film, I always ask about the fairness of the pay. I ask what they're offering me in comparison to the guy. I don't care about how much I get paid; I'm in an industry where we're overcompensated for the work we do.

Jessica Chastain

WorkMeCareFairnessNowPay

I went for a walk in the Arctic Circle without map or compass. Fortunately, I was only lost for hours, not days.

John Burnside

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It's very difficult to release an X-rated movie.

Jerry Bruckheimer

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It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

John Hines

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The power of pop culture stories should not be underestimated, and there is an enormous potential for inspirational stories that can have a positive, transformative effect on our lives.

Anita Sarkeesian

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The fact of the matter is that an actor, if I'm playing a performance capture role and you're playing a live action role and we're having a scene together, there's no difference in our acting processes.

Andy Serkis

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My feeling is, if you're going to be called a celebrity, you might as well use it for some good. It's better to testify for school lunches in front of Congress than get drunk in a bar somewhere and misbehave.

Tom Colicchio

GoodSchoolBetterYouDrunkBar

I don't care what a lot of anonymous strangers think about restaurants.

Ruth Reichl

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Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.

Luigi Barzini

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The producers probably won't like this, but I always describe her as Peppermint Patty on acid.

Mindy Cohn

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When you sit there, and you sing the chorus - and then you look at each other, and everybody has the hair standing up on their arms - then everybody knows you've stumbled onto something.

Jay DeMarcus

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We'll look at a bunch of deals that are being offered to us, and we decide where to go and continue on I guess. It's not too early to start considering our options with other labels.

Josh Silver

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