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?
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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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.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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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.
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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.
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Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.
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The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.
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Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.
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He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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High heels empower women in a way.
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We had many good directors - John Carpenter, Brian De Palma - but things have become polluted by business, money and bad relationships. The success of the horror genre has led to its downfall.
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I want tragic and poetic forever! That's how I want to live every day.
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As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.
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'Blue Valentine' was a really sad movie, but I loved the moments when they're discovering each other for the first time.
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To justify being listened to, I try to be as well informed as I can. Hence, the travel. Reading is good too. Reading gets you part way there, and I do read pretty voraciously for a guy who's trying to write so much.
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I have two little children. I didn't want to be missing their childhood while I was away, busy writing about children.
