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.

Melissa Mathison

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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

• Writers should provoke disagreement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Should
  • Disagreement

• 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

• There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Think
  • Space
  • Volunteer

• 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

• I think for some reason people are drawn to stories of all kinds, for some reason they land harder when they are "true." And yet in fiction, I think there is a lot of deeper truth, too.

  

  T Cooper
  • People
  • Truth
  • True

• I still get butterflies when I'm doing a runway show. The music starts, you're wearing these gorgeous clothes and your nervous about your high heels, if your shoes are going to break, if your going to slip or do something wrong.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Music
  • High
  • Shoes

• I write with teenagers in mind.

  

  Bernard Beckett
  • Mind

• Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, I have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumle along my straight and narrow little path, and to worship at the feet of my Deity, and what more can a human soul ask for?

  

  Alice James
  • Experience
  • Soul
  • Chance

• Adventure begins with you, personally. It is in the way you look at things. It is the mental stance you take as you face your day. It is finding magic in things. It is talking with people and discovering their inner goodness. It is the thrill of feeling a part of the life around you. The attitude of adventure will open things up for you. The world will become alive with new zest and meaning. You'll become more aware of the beauty everywhere. Nothing will seem unimportant. Everything will be revealed as having pattern and purpose.

  

  Wilferd Peterson
  • Feeling
  • Purpose
  • Magic

• 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