Alice Mattison Quotes
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People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
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The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.
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It's a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.
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I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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I make an awesome soup with coconut milk and shrimps; it takes me five hours to prepare the whole thing. It does become very spicy, but you can definitely taste all the ingredients.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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Biggie has been the logo for success, the logo for doing it big - from popping champagne, the ladies, the fashion.
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My workout involves cardio, jogging, and yoga as well. I am a firm believer of yoga and meditation.
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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.
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Things have changed. Now it's not the outward appearance, it's the inward man that I'm trying to change. And that's the message I bring to the people.
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.
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Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn't know. I already had my nose in the art world; I was already looking at things, but I didn't really get it that you could study that because my school was a very different environment.
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Even though the third season of 'Necessary Roughness' was only ten episodes, they were an extremely intense bunch of episodes, especially toward the finale.
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Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.
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I never really considered writing something that was nonfiction.
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I come from a family of strong women, who have been positive role models for me.
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If something is a comedy for the sake of just comedy's sake and it doesn't have a good message, I don't have an interest in being part of it. If something is just serious and scary with no good message, I don't want to be a part of it.
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I think my love is storytelling. No matter what it is, it's storytelling. And so whatever the medium is, what's right for the story, I enjoy doing it.
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I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.
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Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very deep and strong struggle: permit us to question - to doubt - to not be sure. I think that it is important that we do not forget this struggle and thus perhaps lose what we have gained.
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The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination.
