Matthew Tobin Anderson Quotes
I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
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Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.
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I don't know what I've done that has made people so interested in me, more than anyone else.
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I'm sure in a lot of publishing houses that there is a frustration that people feel, that they're not in control, that they are puppets and the corporate bosses are manipulating the strings.
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Gene Wilder is so funny.
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A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
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One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
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I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it's a total waste if she follows her dream'. But I never wanted to do a job I didn't love, and I'd always wanted to be a model or an actress or a singer.
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When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
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It's like I cannot separate myself from Jon Jones.
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I really don't want to be known as a fashionista. I'd like to be someone more than that.
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I believe that we all have something to share with someone else that can better someone else's life.
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Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.
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A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is of necessity repulsive. It represents a bit of human nature - a good bit, of course, but a bit only - in disproportionate, unnatural and revolting prominence.
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Coercion is the least efficient means of obtaining order.
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I meditate all the time. You know, I don't sleep much - it's a known fact that sleep is required more for the brain than the body because the brain needs sleep to dream. But I dream all the time. I dream when I'm awake, when I create work, with my eyes open. So who needs sleep?
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America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.
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Wherever we are found, we always express and honor our love for Mexico, with all our hearts and our heads held high.
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I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.
