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 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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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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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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You have to come to terms with loving your body.
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I want to get the maximum out of my career. Football is my life. And when my career is over, I want to look after my family to help my children. That is all.
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I'm a pretty big Ricky Gervais fan.
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Fame and money and all that - you hear people say it a lot, but they don't mean a thing to me.
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My father used to tape 'Top of the Pops' for me every Sunday, and I would sit in my bedroom, write down the lyrics of all of my favourite songs, and sing along. I was always singing in my bedroom with a hairbrush.
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I read the papers like everybody else, so I don't complain about what they print.
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about solar energy If you ask your congressman why, he'll say 'Because it's hard. It's really hard. Makes me want to go poopie.' You know why we don't have solar energy? It's because the sun goes away each day, and it doesn't tell us where it's going!
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My favorite comedians are basically themselves onstage.
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Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?
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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.
