#about

What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#acceptable #anxieties #correct #i #john

I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more said the better. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#better #i #less #mediterranean #more

Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#actually #between #dislocation #distance #good

If you say that you're all about a certain something, and look back and see that the choices that you've made don't reflect that, then there's something for you to look at. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#back #certain #choices #look #made

It doesn't matter if you have a desperate heart when you have to sing about joy; it doesn't matter if you're scared to death when the lights go on. ↗

— Mireille Mathieu

#death #desperate #go #heart #joy

Even though there's no forum for me on the radio for the kind of music I sing anymore, I am still excited about having a career where I can sing the best music in the world, and people will come and hear me because of the hit records I've had in the past. ↗

— Johnny Mathis

#am #anymore #because #best #career

Differences are scarier now. The dollar isn't so guaranteed if you don't follow what they see as the norm. But I don't moan about it. I just keep working. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#differences #dollar #follow #guaranteed #i

Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#because #box #box office #corporate #different

If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#aids #hearing #hearing aids #i #implant

It seems we're always in transition and that it's more about trends than it is about what's meaningful. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#always #meaningful #more #seems #than