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 -
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 -
But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
Oscar Robertson
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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 -
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
Vannevar Bush
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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.
Lady Gregory -
'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 -
At ABC Cocina and Kitchen, 90 percent of our produce and vegetables come from Union Square, and that's all from upstate New York farmers. We are simply committed to this idea of local, organic food.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten -
Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
Mason Cooley
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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
Pat Metheny -
With everything that's thrown at you, whether it be problems at home, problems at work - whatever - basically, if you remain positive, you can see your way out of that.
Sean Paul -
The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
Octavia Spencer -
Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to take screenwriting classes and learn more about behind the scenes stuff, because I love people like Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig who are able to write a lot of their own material and be so involved in everything they do.
Miranda Cosgrove -
When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice.
Alice Mattison