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.
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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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.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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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.
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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.
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Let me tell you that I love the United States.
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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.
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But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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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.
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I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
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I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.
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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.
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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
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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.
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In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.
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I don't have the time to design my own costumes, but I do give suggestions and style tips.
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I play all my own instruments. I write my own material. And I do not lip-synch. I sing live.
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We'll keep writing and if it hits our standards we'll go with it. We're not here to destroy anything. It's as precious to us as it is for someone who's followed us for years.
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As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.
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When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice.
