Alice Mattison Quotes
You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.Alice Mattison
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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.
Owen Paterson -
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.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
Carl Paladino -
Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
M.I.A. -
You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.
Lady Gaga -
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.
Edmund White
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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.
Maddie Ziegler -
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.'
Xavier Dolan -
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
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.
Ted Demme -
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.
Maggie Q -
I don't believe in God. I do believe in Judaism. I believe in ethics, morals.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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The Palestinian Authority has become the biggest terror body in the world.
Naftali Bennett -
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
W. Somerset Maugham -
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.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko -
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
Hyman G. Rickover -
Collige, virgo, rosas, dum flos novus et nova pubes,et memor esto aevum sic properare tuum.
Ausonius -
Practical life is not necessarily directed toward other people, as some think; and it is not the case that practical thoughts are only those which result from action for the sake of what ensues. On the contrary, much more practical are those mental activities and reflections which have their goal in themselves and take place for their own sake.
Aristotle
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There's something so delicious about holding onto a secret; it's something just for you.
Jenny Han -
Sometimes I get really down on myself for not having the exact career I want, but it's ok as long as you know what you want and you're going towards that. Accept it's going to be a different path than you thought in the first place.
Emily Meade -
What I do know, at least what I think I have learned from my experiences in business, is that when there is a rush for everyone to do the same thing, it becomes more difficult to do. Not easier. Harder.
Mark Cuban -
Our world and our lives have become increasingly interdependent, so when our neighbour is harmed, it affects us too. Therefore we have to abandon outdated notions of 'them' and 'us' and think of our world much more in terms of a great 'US', a greater human family.
Dalai Lama -
You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.
Alice Mattison