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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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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'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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Bill O'Reilly is like a comfortable pair of shimmeringly angry slippers, but you know every night what you're going to get.
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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.
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A lot of my best stuff is just ad libs on stage, and that's one thing that I've gotten back to at the live show.
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One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.
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Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him in the distressing disguise of the poor.
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Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization.
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It is surely no mere coincidence that the land of the emancipated and enthroned woman is also the land of canned soup, of canned pork and beans, of whole meals in cans, and of everything else ready made.
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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.
