Alice Mattison Quotes
I love to read nonfiction and memoir, but I'm mostly interested in the piece of writing more than the person.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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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.'
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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?
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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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.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
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Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.
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Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
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I think people will believe anything about someone they haven't seen for a while.
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The first songs I learned was 'Crazy' by Patsy Cline and 'At Last' by Etta James. I had been growing up with the Beatles, Pink Floyd, great bands.
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No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory.
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I have agreed to lend my voice to Nature's Guard, an animated series which hopefully will go into production in the near future. The characters are all animals. My voice will be for a character named Longtail.
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I think I have a harder time writing about things that I am not actually going through.
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George Smith shows how many of the prophet’s followers embraced plural marriage during a period when the LDS Church was emphatically denying the practice … [and he tells this in] a lucid writing style.
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I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles – normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.
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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.
