Melissa Mathison Quotes

I have two little children. I didn't want to be missing their childhood while I was away, busy writing about children.

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• Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?

  

  C. V. Raman
  • World
  • Work
  • Friend

• Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Consciousness
  • Deny

• People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.

  

  Kate Upton
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Children

• I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Good
  • God
  • Bad

• I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Life
  • Morning
  • Rest

• You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Up
  • House
  • You

• Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Men
  • Funny
  • Like

• The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Music
  • True
  • Feel

• Well, I've been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I've been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when I got out of the womb. But because I've been working in the theater, I've probably only done about 25 movies but I've done more than 100 plays.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Acting

• Muslim girls, we love fashion! Whether we wear the hijab or not - it's our choice - and it's time the industry took note. Finally, fashion stores are open to that idea.

  

  Yuna
  • Time
  • Fashion
  • Idea

• When you grow up starving, you cannot point with pride to a book you've just spent six hours reading. Picking cotton, sewing flour bags into clothes - those were the skills my father grew up appreciating.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Book
  • Father

• I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Believe
  • Violence
  • Medicine

• Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Confident
  • Athletes

• He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Faith
  • Advice
  • Sound

• Call waiting was, for me, that was like the best invention ever, because there was four kids in my family, and to get on the phone was impossible.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Best

• I'm trying to get to bed, and you guys are singing 'The Whole World's in my fucking hand.' I'd rather you shut the fuck up!

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Up
  • World
  • Trying

• Whatever the potential pitfalls, banks are increasingly enthusiastic about venture capital, particularly in new companies with strong prospects in fields like health care and technology.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Strong
  • Health
  • Technology

• High heels empower women in a way.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Women
  • High

• I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Writing
  • Thought
  • Seriously

• The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Experience

• Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • World
  • Family
  • True

• I must say, it was a lot easier writing novels than I thought it would be. I think it's because I'm a novelist at heart, and it took me a while to figure that out.

  

  Maria Semple
  • Writing
  • Heart

• I have two little children. I didn't want to be missing their childhood while I was away, busy writing about children.

  

  Melissa Mathison
  • Writing
  • Childhood
  • Missing