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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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 think people, unfortunately, do live in constant fear.
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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
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In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.
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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
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It's a really bad idea to be in a band and get involved with each other.
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I'm just happy with what I am, and I happen to be a polo player.
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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.
