Matthew Quick Quotes

When I travel round the country, people can't place my accent; if there's someone in the audience, they'll be like, 'You're from Philadelphia', but everyone else will say, 'Where are you from, California?' I get England sometimes - bizarre!

Matthew Quick

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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TravelPeopleSomeoneYouPlaceSay

What I did was I completed the half-hour film, but before really showing it, I wrote two more sections for a potential feature film which I didn't think would really happen, but at least I had it in case.

Jim Jarmusch

ThinkPotentialMoreTwoHappenDid

When I did 'Clockers,' I didn't even think about having a career in acting, I just thought, 'Wow, this is cool. I get to do a little movie.'

Mekhi Phifer

CoolThinkThoughtCareerActing

I was a host and a busboy and a barback.

Max Aaron

Host

What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there. And I think if there's anything artistic, it's in that middle space.

Anna Deavere Smith

WorkPracticeEffortSpaceThink

More than a few studies have shown that the five people you spend the most time with represent you - so you need to decide - who do you want to be?

Michael Gerber

TimePeopleYouWantMoreNeed

I hadn't seen 'Bride of Frankenstein' until high school or maybe even later than that. It's really one of the great movie experiences where you think you know what it's going to be, but it's so much weirder and so much better than anything you could've imagined. It's so full of these striking, powerful images.

Mike Mignola

GreatSchoolThinkBrideBetterYou

Boeing does a great job in introducing product that kind of changes the game.

Louis R. Chenevert

GreatJobGameKindProductChanges

My delight in things is definitely Caribbean. It has to do with landscape and food. The fact that my language may have a metrical direction is because that's the shape of the language. I didn't make that shape.

Derek Walcott

FoodDirectionLanguageLandscape

I just want to be a storyteller, and I think the way to do that is by your lyrics, by your visuals, by your choreography, by your dance. It's imperative as an artist.

Dawn Richard

DanceThinkArtistWantWayJust

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.

Christopher Hampton

LifeGreatWorldEnergyResult

I don't date guys that I just meet randomly. I don't feel comfortable meeting strangers.

Ali Landry

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I really like the P!nk song with the guy from fun., 'Just Give Me a Reason.'

Psy

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