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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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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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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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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I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
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I did most of my schooling in Miami.
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I have a ranch, which is my favorite place in the world.
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I don't think socialism, and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words.
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Experience is a great teacher.
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I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice.
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Anybody who can write home for money can write for magazines.
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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.
