Matt Roper Quotes

I have two vintage typewriters. One just about works and the other hasn't a hope in hell, bless it. But they're both beautiful, and they'll stay with me just as long as there's a roof over my head.

Matt Roper

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Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't.

Joan Didion

SimpleMeReadingEarlyHimStarted

Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies.

Joel Hodgson

ThinkRememberFirstWatchingCecil

Given how well the cards have been dealt to someone like myself, I think there's an inherent obligation to try to reach out and make a difference.

Max Walker

MyselfThinkReachMake A Difference

I believe in humans.

John Malkovich

BelieveI BelieveI Believe InHumans

The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago.

Robert Nelson

HistoryArtInformationTroubleUs

International cooperation is vital to keeping our globe safe, commerce flowing, and our planet habitable.

Angus Deaton

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Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

John Polanyi

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When I'm in Jerusalem, I stay at the American Colony Hotel, neutral territory: the secret peace talks of 1992/3 started there.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

PeaceAmericanHotelSecretStarted

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

Roddy Doyle

ExperienceWordsStoryYouPersonal

I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more.

Jude Law

LifeLawNameLanguageYouLook

Writers seem mesmerized by the state - the temporal entity. The word 'perestroika' is impressed somehow on our minds. But that is not the duty of a writer.

Joseph Brodsky

DutyMindsSeemWriterWordState

I DJ'd and sang at Miami Basel 2013.

Boy George

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