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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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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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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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 think people, unfortunately, do live in constant fear.
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You know how there's always the one girl in drama school who can cry at the drop of a hat? She has that emotional well she can tap into in a second? I'm not that girl. It takes a lot to get me to that place.
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But obviously you don't want to just be the guy who comes in and sort of spices up every movie. So yeah, definitely moving into more of a leading man role would be great, but on my own terms.
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I actually often write about writing music and being in that zone.
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Iraq is the central battleground in the war on terror. The terrorists certainly know what is at stake, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to derail our efforts there. They know that a free and democratic Iraq is a serious blow to their interests.
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We all laughed. It was more like that whole thing that I was talking about earlier. You go to training camp and after the season is over, you might not see the guys for six months until you go back to training camp.
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There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
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The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.
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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.
