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“It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.”

Writing Mean Matter Literature Fiction Novel Streets Conversation No Matter What Autobiography Biographies Detectives Detective Fiction

Author:Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone.”

Ifs Thinking Made Matter Would Be Gone Flats Benches Racial Profiling

Author:Mills Lane

“It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay.”

Matter Moving Term Justice Responsibility Week Duty Court Assuming Supreme Chiefs Senate Supreme Court Delay Chief Justice

Author:Jay Sekulow

“I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.”

Ifs Feels I Can Real Matter Character Action Interesting Reader Kings Regard Meetings Queens Plot Compelled Twists Meeting Someone Plot Twists

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win.”

Matter Winning Losing No Matter What Hated

Author:Marat Safin

“No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.”

People Stills Matter Happens No Matter What Tennis

Author:Marat Safin

“I've always been happy just to be working. It doesn't really matter for me how many people are familiar with my name or my picture, or whatever.”

People Matter Names Familiar Working It

Author:Michael Shannon

“I think my love is storytelling. No matter what it is, it's storytelling. And so whatever the medium is, what's right for the story, I enjoy doing it.”

Thinking Matter Stories Enjoy Love Is No Matter What Storytelling Mediums

Author:Neil Strauss

“The oil dinosaurs want to win so badly in my home state because what happens here matters everywhere. The nation often follows where California goes.”

Want Matter States Home Happens Winning Nations Oil California Dinosaurs Home State

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.”

Matter Action Messages

Author:Ron Suskind

“As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.”

Matter Sex Loses Gains Mark Operations Pounds Sex Change

Author:Todd Solondz

“Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.”

Ifs Two Matter Whole Hours Lines Half No Matter What Backgrounds Half Hours

Author:Aaron Tveit

“Still, most people don't have much money. So finding ways to come out a couple of thousand dollars ahead every year still matters.”

People Way Years Stills Matter Couple Thousand Findings Dollars

Author:Andrew Tobias

“The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.”

People Firsts Matter House Position Building Habit Taste Chosen Holland Building Houses

Book:Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern

Source: Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern

“My dad told me when I went into high school, 'It's not what you do when you walk in the door that matters. It's what you do when you walk out.' That's when you've made a lasting impression.”

Made Matter School Walks Doors Dad High School My Dad Impression Lasting Lasting Impressions

Author:Jim Thome

“The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.”

Long Matter Courses Creative Long Time Endeavor

Author:Laini Taylor

“I've always learned when you win a game, no matter what the stats look like, you have to enjoy the victories because they are hard to come by.”

Looks Matter Hard Games Winning Enjoy Like You Victory No Matter What

Author:Mike Tice

“The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.”

Ifs Way Trying Humans Art Matter Earth Force Human Beings Truth Is Degrees Ocean Bigger Boat Rhythm Martial Arts Academic Ninja Wild Places

Author:Rachael Taylor

“I'm really proud to have been in The Craft. I will always be that chick from The Craft, no matter what I do.”

Has Beens Matter Proud No Matter What Crafts Chicks

Author:Robin Tunney

“It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.”

Men Matter Government Common South Rings Domination Cunning Carolina South Carolina Common Knowledge Conniving

Author:Strom Thurmond

“As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.”

Writing Trying I Can Different Matter Character Wonderful Offers Female Stronger Hats Gray Female Characters Gray Matter

Author:Tate Taylor

“I've learned that no matter what I do, people are going to have their opinions.”

People Matter Opinion No Matter What I've Learned

Author:Tila Tequila

“If the work is good, what does it matter? I'm doing it because I love it. Why not do as many things I love as I can? As long as the work is good.”

Ifs Long Doe I Can Matter Why Not Things I Love Does It Matter

Author:James Franco

“Music is such a healing thing, no matter who you are.”

Matter Healing Music Is Who You Are

Author:Kate Voegele

“But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.”

Doe Matter Helping Form Our Lives Equal Recognition Our Society Grants

Author:Joan D. Vinge

“Just in general, no matter what you're doing, be true to yourself. Never let anyone else dictate how you live your life.”

Matter No Matter What Being True Live Your Life Be True To Yourself True To Yourself

Author:Rumer Willis

“Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance.”

Writing Matter Attention Practice Talent Instruments Crafts

Author:Susan Wiggs

“Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.”

Ifs Matter Girl Boys Son Adolescence Being A Girl

Author:Anne Frank

“I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.”

May Book Matter Form Fiction No Matter What Science Fiction Great Faith

Author:Connie Willis

“All SEALS in my mind are equally elite. It doesn't matter if you're SEAL Team Two, One, Six, 10, it doesn't matter. All SEALS are equally elite.”

Ifs Mind Two Matter Team Six Elites Seals

Author:Howard E. Wasdin

“My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.”

People Has Beens I Can Two Matter Mother Father Influence No Matter What Mother And Father

Author:Jack Wagner

“I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for that matter, because the truth is that all pursuits are connected if we gain an eye for the thematic links.”

Ifs Art Two Matter Eye Truth Is Gains Connected Chess Pursuit Two Things Martial Arts Links Parallels Thematic

Author:Joshua Waitzkin

“No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.”

People Different Matter Jobs Parent Generations No Matter What Retired Different Life Different Jobs

Author:Kate Walsh

“I mean, there's definitely a difference between film and live performances or live television. But at the same time, it's just performing. No matter what, it's performing.”

Mean Matter Film Differences Television Performances No Matter What Performing Live Performance Live Television

Author:Kenny Wormald

“What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.”

Matter Commitment Genuine Obsession Pursue Appetite What Matters

Author:Leon Wieseltier

“I know that some people work differently, but I have to work from the inside out. It doesn't matter how big the character is, there has to be a truthful core.”

People Knows Matter Character Bigs Core Truthful

Author:Lesley Ann Warren

“Then no matter what goes on around you in the physical universe, hang on to what you know.”

Knows Matter Universe Goes On No Matter What

Author:Lindsay Wagner

“I don't have one role that I'm particularly fond of doing, and I don't really look for it to differ all the time, but I will try anything and do anything. If it's a role I connect with, I'll go for it, no matter what's involved.”

Ifs Trying Looks Matter Roles Involved No Matter What

Author:Mae Whitman

“I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to movies, directors, producers, actors for that matter.”

Thinking Humans Matter Actors Human Beings Directors Producers Educated Uneducated Movie Director Educated And Uneducated

Author:Shailene Woodley

“I think it's very much a matter between Barbara Walters and ABC.”

Thinking Matter Barbara

Author:Tom Brokaw

“Looking at voter behavior over the years I'm always interested to see and impressed to see how voters eventually find the key issues that matter to them to cast their vote.”

Years Matter Issues Keys Behavior Vote Casts Voters Impressed

Author:Steven J. Law

“I have been accused of something I'm not guilty of. How do you prove a negative? No matter what we discuss here today, I'm never going to have my name restored. But I've got to try and set the record straight.”

Trying Has Beens Matter Today Names Records Prove Negative No Matter What Guilty Accused Not Guilty

Author:Jim Lehrer

“For most mothers, vaccinations become a matter of faith - faith in pharmaceutical companies, faith in public health officials - and I think there's been an erosion of faith.”

Thinking Matter Mother Company Officials Public Health Pharmaceutical Erosion Vaccinations Pharmaceutical Companies

Author:Paul A. Offit

“Love creates new form, changes matter, and holds the cosmos together beyond time and space. It's in every one of us. It's what God is.”

Love Matter Together Form Space Cosmos Time And Space God Is Love

Book:The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way: Easyread Large Edition

Source: The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way: Easyread Large Edition

“Blessed if you do... Blessed if you don't... Blessed no matter what!”

Ifs Matter Wisdom Wise No Matter What Blessed Clever

Author:Doreen Virtue

“In an information economy, entrepreneurs master the science of information in order to overcome the laws of the purely physical sciences. They can succeed because of the surprising power of the laws of information, which are conducive to human creativity. The central concept of information theory is a measure of freedom of choice. The principle of matter, on the other hand, is not liberty but limitation- it has weight and occupies space.”

Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

“It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.”

Men Two Matter Turns Left Party Issues Subjects Effects Poet Aspect Fortune Disappointment Various Versions Consideration Plumber

Author:Thomas Frank

“Matter is fun for a while; but ultimately, it is the spiritual experience where we leap beyond what we know- that is the happiness.”

Knows Inspirational Matter Spiritual Fun Buddhism Leap Spiritual Experience

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All I have to teach you are feelings, the words don't matter much. But as you listen, feel the stillness of my mind, not my mind but of mind...infinite mind.”

Inspirational Feels Mind Matter Feelings Teach Masters Buddhism Infinite Stillness Of My Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enter into the activities of the world, without getting overjoyed by success or totally put out by failure. Whether they love you or hate you, it doesn't much matter. What matters is stillness.”

World Inspirational Matter Hate Love You Buddhism Activity Stillness What Matters Hate You Overjoyed

Author:Frederick Lenz

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