Alice Mattison Quotes

I think that inevitably, the trouble our characters go through is a kind of metaphor for what's happening in ourselves.

Alice Mattison

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• Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.

  

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• In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

  

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• My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

  

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• The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.

  

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• I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.

  

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• I wanted a bronzer so I could look like I just came from Ibiza everyday.

  

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• I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.

  

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• I was young and irresponsible, a silly woman laden with sin, not caring for anything except fame and fortune and self. But I have lived seeking truth in Jesus Christ and found it has made me free.

  

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• Everyone has a breakup in their lives, and I think everyone should experience love.

  

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• I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

  

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• Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.

  

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• Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.

  

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• Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

  

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• I try not to carry any character back home because that would be extremely frustrating for my family.

  

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• On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

  

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• You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked.

  

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• Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric vehicles and battery storage. America's political impotence, caused by their terrible partisanship, will see them left behind.

  

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• Others do not define you - you define yourself through your words and actions.

  

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• Twitter has always been that refreshing place where I can quickly find out what is going on in my tech world. I follow mostly entrepreneurs and VCs - some who I know and some who I don't know. I have a few companies in my feed. But no newspapers, no magazines, and no mainstream media.

  

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• But I have never had the privilege of unhappiness in Happy Valley. California is about the good life. So a bad life there seems so much worse than a bad life anywhere else. Quality is an obsession there—good food, good wine, good movies, music, weather, cars. Those sound like the right things to shoot for, but the never-ending quality quest is a lot of pressure when you’re uncertain and disorganized and, not least, broker than broke. Some afternoons a person just wants to rent Die Hard, close the curtains, and have Cheerios for lunch.

  

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• May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.

  

  William Blake
  • God
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  • Vision

• I think that inevitably, the trouble our characters go through is a kind of metaphor for what's happening in ourselves.

  

  Alice Mattison
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Kind