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Harry Mathews Quotes

It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting.

Harry Mathews

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: February 14, 1930

Topics

Life Home Child My Life True Others

I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show.

Joanna Lumley

Job Effort Looking Think You Keep

A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows - faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double.

Jennifer Tilly

Good Great Me Makeup You Body

I'm always for lower taxes because lower taxes make people want to do things. Less burden, more fun, and economics is about people wanting to have fun. Growth is fun for people in the marketplace.

Amity Shlaes

Growth Fun People Economics Have Fun

Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from Heaven.

Lu Yu

Heaven Dew Like Liquor Sweetest

I want my people to work hard. But if they see me earning a lot more than they do, they would lose their sense of being owners of the factory, and what I say as factory manager wouldn't stick.

Lu Guanqiu

Work People Me Work Hard Lose Want

I've been 5-6 since I've been at least 17 or 18. I think somebody made a mistake on the measurements.

Jose Altuve

Mistake Think Been Somebody Made

Professionally, I feel like I won the lottery and I am the luckiest person in the entire world.

Jonah Hill

I Am World Feel Person Lottery Like

I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots.

Dennis Quaid

Job Long Three More Never Out

I'm really not interested in acting as a facade, I'm interested in it as an emotional expression and as a transcendent experience for an individual. I find that a lot of people, a lot of young actors, haven't gotten to the point where they're comfortable being stripped down. They're still interested in ornate jackets.

Brie Larson

Experience People Find Acting Down

The Actors Fund is a human services organization, so our focus has been on caring for the entire human as opposed to dealing with the disease.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

Focus Caring Organization Human Been

There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.

Pope Francis

Pride Arrogance Church Vanity Danger

I once had a boyfriend who couldn't write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was really weird, because this was a long time ago, and no one I knew ever wore dress shirts, let alone neckties; it was like he was a grown-up reenacter or something.

Susan Orlean

Alone Time Dress Thought Weird Long