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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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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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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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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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 come from a family of strong women, who have been positive role models for me.
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Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.
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As women, we get the message about how to be a good girl - how to be a good, pretty girl - from such an early age. Then, at the same time, we're told that well-behaved girls won't change the world or ever make a splash.
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All my first albums, they're full of heart and emotion, and the songs are wonderful, but they wouldn't have been the takes I would have chosen.
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Mortality defines the human condition.
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I'm writing for my ideal reader, for somebody who's willing to take the time, who's willing to get lost in a new world, who's willing to do their part. But then I have to do my part and give them a sound and a voice that they believe in enough to keep going.
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One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.
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That's it. I've said all I've got to say on the world of James Bond.
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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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I was very attracted to the way that Zen did not go into the imagination land. And now I've forgotten what your first question was and how we were going to tie this together.
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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
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The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination.
