#ted

I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#harvard #i #left #princeton

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

Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#among #arts #been #fascinated #first

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

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

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

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#branches #grow #instinct #just #must

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#before #creative #difficult #ever #first

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#censure #more #oneself #praise #salutary

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf, life for me was like one long episode of 'The Brady Bunch.' Despite whatever barriers were in my way, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady skating down the street saying 'hi' to everyone, whether they knew me or not. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#brady #bunch #chicago #deaf #despite