Alice Mattison Quotes
When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice.Alice Mattison
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
Caio Fonseca -
I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
J. B. Smoove -
The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
Lance Ito -
Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.
Fatos Nano -
I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
Carl Sandburg -
Trends come and go, and style evolves. It's important to have pieces of jewelry that are timeless and look chic despite ever-changing fashions.
Karen Elson
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But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
Oscar Robertson -
You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
AJ McLean -
At times, my very own media makes me cringe, and occasionally out loud. By the way, nothing clears the head like an out-loud cringe.
Dan Jenkins -
I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
Patrick Dempsey -
I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.
Eden Hazard -
Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism.
Ori Gersht
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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
Vannevar Bush -
Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again.
Lady Gregory -
I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time.
Ed Harris -
'When will they fight?' I asked.'Tomorrow. Daybreak. It is man’s work.'I laughed. 'I too have fought and killed, Kotta. It is the work of fools, not men.'
Tanith Lee -
Scared out of his seven senses.
Walter Scott -
Tranquilizer in tha trunk put yo ass to sleep man, Birdman Junior got the world in my wingspan.
Lil Wayne
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We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods.
Baden Powell -
I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
B. B. King -
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
Ralph Ellison -
The way I sometimes approach my work, when I look at a script for the first time, is to identify what the archetypes are and what the writing is trying to do in that context.
Sarah Gadon -
Life was messy. Always had been and always would be and that was just the way it was, so why bother complaining? You either did something about it or you didn’t, and then you lived with the choice you made.
Nicholas Sparks -
When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice.
Alice Mattison