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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Looking back, the biggest mistake I made was feeling ashamed of it. Acne is a part of life. You don't need to be embarrassed of it.
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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 may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.
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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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One way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and to be a nobody. The world will then not bother you.
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Before I came to Italy to play for Milan in 2007, I saw in the papers that my name was mentioned in connection with some English clubs.
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To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.
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I've been writing for years and developing my own films and editing with a friend of mine in Australia.
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Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.
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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.
