Alice Mattison Quotes
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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In 'D.A.R.Y.L.' there was a part where I had to freeze to death, and they didn't even use it. It can get kind of frustrating. But I don't regret that I decided to become an actor. Besides, if I don't like it at any time, I can stop.
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All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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I've got a great eye for color. I'm like a chick.
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Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.
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A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.
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With skill she vibrates her eternal tongue,Forever most divinely in the wrong.
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I'm definitely a lot more comfortable now in my 40s than in my 30s - that's for sure.
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I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue.
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I remembered the times I'd second-guessed myself or questioned my own ability. The times when a little voice in my head worried that I didn't have the know-how or the experience to reach for an exciting opportunity.
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I am 100 percent supportive of the stand-alone bill to repeal 'don't ask, don't tell' that Sens. Lieberman and Collins have now proposed, and indeed I will co-sponsor that legislation. It is time for this discriminatory policy to end, and I am willing to pursue any effective legislative path that could lead to that result.
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Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.
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No matter what, I'm in a very small club. There are very few women who have directed studio-level commercial films - very few.
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Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.
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I don't have the courage not to write all the time.
