Alice Mattison Quotes
It's hard to say which of us is luckier, the ones who go through long periods when they can't write or the ones who can write pretty easily.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.
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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
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Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.
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If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
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Everything you can imagine is real.
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Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.
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Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania numquam:nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.
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No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.
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An Englishman thinks first of his work - his job, he calls it - and then of his sport, and last - a good way last - of his wife.
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Here in the hospital, I say,that is not my body, not my body.I am not here for the doctorsto read like a recipe.
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'That narrow window, I expect, Serves but to let the dusk in - ' 'But please,' said I, 'to recollect 'Twas fashioned by an architect Who pinned his faith on Ruskin!'
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It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.
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In writing a novel about George Sand, I hoped to present her as the talented, beguiling, complicated and occasionally infuriating woman I think she was, but I hope, too, that readers will enjoy the people she surrounded herself with.
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Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.
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The thing about Bollywood is that you can't just quit it even if you have little fame. You have to stick around and keep trying.
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I did not think that a good movie was the equivalent of a good stage play, any more than I thought an automobile ride was as exhilarating as a drive behind a spirited horse, nor a trip by steam as soul-satisfying as a voyage by sail.
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I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could be said about a particular thing. It's a constant evolution. If I planted a tree one way yesterday, and somebody tells me of a better way to plant a tree, I think, 'You know, they're right, that's better.' Then I change my way to accommodate the new way of planting trees.
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When Elvis made his mass-media debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - his notorious gyrations filmed only from the waist up - I fell off the family chaise longue with delight.
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It's hard to say which of us is luckier, the ones who go through long periods when they can't write or the ones who can write pretty easily.
