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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• I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • People
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  • Work

• 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.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • People
  • God
  • Rebellion

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

  

  Sallust
  • War
  • Risk
  • Battle

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

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • School
  • She
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• The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.

  

  Taya Kyle
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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.

  

  Katharine Cornell
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  • Woman
  • Performances

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

  

  Iman
  • Like
  • Look
  • Everyday

• 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.

  

  Vanity
  • Truth
  • Free
  • Jesus

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

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Lives

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

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Movies

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

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Men
  • Women
  • Immigrants

• 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.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Japanese
  • Attacked
  • Destroyers

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

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Experience
  • Poetry
  • Wise

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

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Family
  • Home
  • Character

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

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Simple
  • Acting
  • Stage

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

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • You
  • Film
  • Say

• 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.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Money
  • America
  • Political

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

  

  Karen Handel
  • You
  • Words
  • Yourself

• It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Hands
  • Acceptance
  • Unworthy

• The traits the word 'childish' addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking.

  

  Adora Svitak
  • Thinking
  • Age

• Ideals, my girl,” she says. “Always easier to believe in than live.” “But if you don't at least try to live them,” Bradley says, “then there's no point in living at all.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Believe
  • Live
  • She

• I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Need
  • Just Because

• I'm still the same. Take the fight against terrorism: after the attacks of September 11, I was the first to side with US President [George W.] Bush. And now, after the attacks in Paris, I have done the same with the President of France,[Oliver] Hollande. Terrorism threatens us all.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Done
  • President
  • September

• 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