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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

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

The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#character #deformed #human #once #opens

When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice. ↗

— Johnny Mathis

#i #lessons #life #me #my life

When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl. ↗

— Samantha Mathis

#girl #i #innocent #perceived #sweet

A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#claws #hasn #much #sharpened #she

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#after #artist #color #expression #means

I have been no more than a medium, as it were. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#i #medium #more #than #were

I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#anyone #cost #efforts #hide #i