Alice Mattison Quotes
I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.
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You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
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Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
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I don't feel drawn to lightness, I need something more. I feel that - oh, I hate saying this, it sounds so wanky - but I feel a real urge to give voices to people we don't usually hear from in real life.
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What's right with America and what's right with Islam have a lot in common. At their highest levels, both worldviews reflect an enlightened recognition that all of humankind shares a common Creator - that we are, indeed, brothers and sisters.
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
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Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.
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When you're a fashion photographer, you must inspire a dream.
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We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
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New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.
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I believe Corot painted a tree better that any of us, but still I find him superior in his figures.
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I am a geek. I am an otaku.
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I guess I invented extended warranties, because that's all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days.
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I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions.
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When people think of the South Side of Chicago, they don't think about where I'm from. It was sort of a pocket: this idyllic community of black people who took care of each other, knew each other, spent time with each other.
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I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.
