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.
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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.
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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.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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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.
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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.
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The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
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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.
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I am always so envious of people who do whatever they want.
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Given the right set of circumstances any one of us could become dangerous - so why not show that in our programmes?
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When they have their hands on their knees, that's when they're tired.
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I hate comics who look at comedy as therapy. But at least it gets things out of my system in a funny way.
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'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.
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I don't have to try to be perfect at everything.
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My mom says I was born screaming.
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I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.
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I don't regret anything, but that doesn't mean that I don't look back and think, 'What was I thinking?'
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If the ox could think, it would attribute oxality to God.
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I just think she was a wonderful woman. What I think of when I think of Nina [Simone] is someone that I could relate to, who didn't want anything from me, that could relate to me because I didn't want anything from her. It was nice.
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“Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.”
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When you have to deal with a beast, you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.
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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.
