Alice Mattison Quotes
You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
-
In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
-
The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
-
Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
-
You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.
-
There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.
-
I don't feel that normal anymore because I get recognised, even when I'm just trying to have fun or going to get ice cream with my friends.
-
It's important to see how people see your work and how they feel about it. I know a lot of directors who are like, 'I never read reviews,' and I'm like, 'Yeah I can tell.'
-
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
-
What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff.
-
I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.
-
I don't believe in God. I do believe in Judaism. I believe in ethics, morals.
-
The Palestinian Authority has become the biggest terror body in the world.
-
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
-
Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!
-
No Jewish blood runs among my blood,but I am as bitterly and hardly hatedby every anti-semiteas if I were a Jew. By thisI am a Russian.
-
Wiederhorn, Jon (February 8, 1996). Alice in Chains: To Hell and Back. Rolling Stone.
-
Never do I deceive you, Hastings. I only permit you to deceive yourself.
-
I was facing life for the first time. I was 12 years old, but I felt like a 20 year old. I knew then what life was.
-
I was always suspicious and looking over my shoulder because that's how I was raised.
-
Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides.
-
Thought without language, says Lavelle, would not be a purer thought; it would be no more than the intention to think. And his last book offers a theory of expressiveness which makes of expression not 'a faithful image of an already realized interior being, but the very means by which it is realized.'
-
You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.
