Alice Mattison Quotes
I get to a certain point, and I think in a novel it's about the third draft, when I want other eyes on it.Alice Mattison
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There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.
Maisie Williams -
There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the work that way too overtly. 'This is Hollywood.' 'This isn't Hollywood.' It's like, 'No, this is actually all Hollywood.' People are just framing them differently.
Barry Jenkins -
When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
Aaron Neville -
Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
Walt Handelsman -
One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.
Rachel Kushner -
Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
E. M. Forster
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The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
Albert Schweitzer -
Either you are a man of unusual ability, Thorn, or a man with a rather inadequate grasp of human nature. I just hope it’s the former.
Alastair Reynolds -
I am always so envious of people who do whatever they want.
Claire Foy -
Given the right set of circumstances any one of us could become dangerous - so why not show that in our programmes?
Bryan Cranston -
When they have their hands on their knees, that's when they're tired.
Eric Dickerson -
'The Cape' is a really good comic! They invented the whole character, and now they've built a book of 'The Cape' for the show. When I was a kid, I used to love Batman, and I loved Spider-Man. My favorite was this guy called Judge Dredd. I know they made a movie of that in the '90s.
James Frain
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I don't have to try to be perfect at everything.
Cindy Crawford -
My mom says I was born screaming.
Elle King -
I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.
Lena Dunham -
Bill O'Reilly is like a comfortable pair of shimmeringly angry slippers, but you know every night what you're going to get.
Piers Morgan -
I was as big as I have ever been. I had a personal trainer and was working out. I was feeling good. I was muscular. I had never weighed more than 155 pounds.
Marc Wallice -
All rappers predominantly sound the same and want you to think their meanest person in the world, and that they're all gangster and all that. My acting allowed me to be playful and crazy, and it helps me tell stories and all that. I think it's a good time; rap needs that kind of stuff.
Nicki Minaj
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Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.
Harmony Korine -
When I'm up against a wall, that's when Billy Mays performs best.
Billy Mays -
Those who threaten Israel threaten us. Israel has always faced these threats on the frontlines. And I will bring to the White House an unshakable commitment to Israel's security. That starts with insuring Israel's qualitative military advantage. I will insure that Israel can defend itself from any threat - from Gaza to Tehran.
Barack Obama -
One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.
Steven Strogatz -
I get to a certain point, and I think in a novel it's about the third draft, when I want other eyes on it.
Alice Mattison