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“I like interacting with human beings, so being on stage feels like a larger version of that - kind of like throwing a party. It's like knocking into the human collision of everyday life and it just so happens to break down the wall between the audience and me and helps the songs communicate better.”
Source : "Singer-Songwriter Matt Nathanson: On feeling vulnerable, staying present, and not being terrified". Interview with Mary Bruce, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. October 26, 2015. 
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“He came with death held in his paw Which no rat born could face Oh woe to those who break the law Of Sunflash and his mace!”
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“Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.”
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“I've achieved everything I ever wanted. I've done three Olympics, world championships, I've been around the world and made good friends. But I still have the inner drive to do more, to be not just good, but to be great.”
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“I've changed over my writing life. If I can generalize, I would say that the more recent poems - believe it or not - are more pointedly political; although, if the earlier poems were more existential, they were still political; though, in their own way, had a complicated presence.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.”
Source : "Mapping the Nation". Book edited by Gopal Balakrishnan and Benedict Anderson, 1996.
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“What indicates a person’s weak religion and fear of God, is that he seeks for an opinion that suits his desire.”
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“You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ...is to press play.”
