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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Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.
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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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Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.
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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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It's interesting to play a real-life person who has already been a character on 'Saturday Night Live.'
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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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It seemed so illogical to punish some poor criminal for doing something that civilization taught him how to do so he could have something that civilization taught him how to want. It seemed to him as wrong as if they had hung the gun that shot the man.
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I think Michael Moore is a hero.
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In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.
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I was once told that I had become too confident and that it made me less likeable. Many successful people will get this at some point, because the people who haven't followed a similar path can be threatened by someone who has and is unabashed about it.
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I try to live tolerance in my own way, which is why, as a politician, one of my key priorities is to stand up for human rights.
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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.
