"I have a strong desire to connect. And so when I don't get that, I leave that situation feeling particularly wounded."

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Source : "Singer-Songwriter Matt Nathanson: On feeling vulnerable, staying present, and not being terrified". Interview with Mary Bruce, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Matt Nathanson

#Strong Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Desire Quotes

“I am constantly looking to push boundaries with materials, bring in new weights, and work in fabrics unexpectedly.”
“On the Upper East Side, women are prisoners to the ideology of intensive motherhood, which is that you should be enriching your child's well-being on every measure you possibly can at every moment. So when your kid is sitting down playing with Legos, intensive motherhood dictates that you should be engaging with him or her somehow, praising, questioning, making it into a learning opportunity. It's not enough to just tell your child, "Do your homework." It's not enough to help with the homework. You go to the school and learn how they do math, so that you can tutor your child in math.”
“Red Dragon's my favorite of the books, because it is written with such a poet's ear. Whenever it gets really flowery and poetic and it's dialogue, chances are that's a Thomas Harris quote of some kind that's kind of been repurposed or reinterpreted or re-imagined somehow. That's where a lot of that poetry comes from.”
“Grace has to be the loveliest word in the English language. It embodies almost every attractive quality we hope to find in others. Grace is a gift of the humble to the humiliated. Grace acknowledges the ugliness of sin by choosing to see beyond it. Grace accepts a person as someone worthy of kindness despite whatever grime or hard-shell casing keeps him or her separated from the rest of the world. Grace is a gift of tender mercy when it makes the least sense.”
“People think photography is about photographing. To me, itâ€™s about relationships.”

Source : "Lynsey Addario: ‘It’s What I Do’". lens.blogs.nytimes.com. March 30, 2011.
“It is impossible to carry the American people along with you on a program of caution to forestall a threatening position.”

Source : "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power". Book by Daniel Yergin, new edition, 1993.
“In some ways, the most rewarding thing I've done were the two times that I did the Oscars, particularly the first time because it was really like the ultimate "Let's put on a show," with every great movie star in the world available.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.”

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