Alice Mattison Quotes
Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know for a long time how to do it.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.
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It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
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Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
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I like Everton. If I'm going to cheer for that kind of football team, I'm going to cheer for Everton. But the Seahawks are my passion.
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Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
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I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
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With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.
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He saw in memory Mendoza’s face, her black eyes sad as she downloaded a chapter on revolutions.Here you go. Great heroes and the things they wrecked. Always easier to destroy something than to create something. It’s harder to plant a garden than to blow up a building, and undoubtedly more boring, but you just might need to do it one day, eh?
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We are the offspring of approval-seekers. We want approval so badly that we vacillate between conforming to get it and standing out (being outstanding) to get it.
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Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as doctors must study healthy people to understand disease, so must the land sciences study the wilderness to understand disorders of the land-mechanism.
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I navigate through the world with the excitement and determination of a child. That's why I'm an artist. I'd die without an outlet for expression. Unfortunately, more often than not, that childlike energy is the maturity level I bring to many circumstances.
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Katie Couric is kind of my soulmate.
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I like to portray things as close to the bone as possible.
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For there to be a 'Community' movie just seems like an appropriate way for the show to go out. That would be my perfect end.
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I don't publish anything I haven't worked over 100 times.
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They're not going to teach science at all. What they do is take the science students down to the lake, tie them in burlap sacks and throw them in. If God thinks they're good science students, they float.
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The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet.
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I don't believe in writer's block. There are good days when you're writing and less good days. I've learned that if it's not happening to walk away and return later. I doodle a lot and often get my best ideas with a pencil in my hand while I'm doodling. The problem is, sometimes I lose my doodles and that's bad!
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know for a long time how to do it.
