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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I'm not interested in being easy anymore. Readable, yes. Easy, no.
George Murray -
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
Edith Sitwell -
I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.
Carl Barks -
I don't really know why I went to law school.
Emily Giffin -
When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice.
Alice Mattison