Alice Mattison Quotes
I love to read nonfiction and memoir, but I'm mostly interested in the piece of writing more than the person.
Alice Mattison
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
Gary Lineker
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
Victor Borge
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
Mahmoud Darwish
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
Quentin Crisp
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
S. E. Hinton
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
Madeleine Stowe
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
F. Lee Bailey
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
Jack Davenport
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
Fiona Shaw
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If you want the Migos to come to your venue, you need to have security there because of the type of music we're rappin'. We get fans excited.
Quavo
Migos
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
Gaby Hoffmann
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I come from Beverley in East Yorkshire, and no one there would step outside their front door, or even their back door, on a Saturday night - or any other time, for that matter - unless they were dressed to the nines.
Anna Maxwell Martin
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Several elementary school teachers had described me as a 'future authoress or poetess.' Mother took me to meet Chicago's leading black librarian, who published a poem of mine in the magazine she edited for Negro children.
Margo Jefferson
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Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man can make money, but it takes a special kind of man to use it responsibly.
Arthur George Gaston
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I don't know what you do about it. You'd like to catch them, but it's like finding a needle in a haystack. Fortunately, they come and go.
Eric Johnson
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I love to read nonfiction and memoir, but I'm mostly interested in the piece of writing more than the person.
Alice Mattison
