#do

I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And then I realized that what I really wanted to write had nothing to do with what he was doing. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#could #doing #had #him #i

My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#done #finally #i #mother #never

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#adolescence #eleven #great #had #i

I really, really enjoy music and that's why I do what I do. ↗

— Johnny Mathis

#i #i do #music #really #why

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother. ↗

— Diana Ross

#child #even #i #mother #single

Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do. ↗

— Johnny Mathis

#being #being famous #doing #gets #sometimes

Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage. ↗

— Samantha Mathis

#different #doing #film #onstage #piece

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#i #i do #literally #me #paint

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#else #everybody #everybody else #i #i do

How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know? ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#be true #business #cave #could #deaf