Alice Mattison Quotes
We have to give our poor, innocent, and undeserving-of-our-badness characters trouble in order to make them characters in a story.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.
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Music is about the performance.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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We must confront persecution faced by many Christian communities and the intolerance that plagues us. We must overcome anti-Semitism and the prejudice that divides us. We must defeat Islamophobia and the fears that weaken us.
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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
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When you're 47 years old and playing at a world-class level in the fastest sport, and you have zero percent body fat, you need to be brought down a peg as often as possible.
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The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
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Every single day, everywhere we went, people were coming up to me and Boyd repeatedly and saying, 'We're life-long Democrats, but we're voting for you. We've never voted for a Republican in our life.'
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Background scores allow me an absolute flight of the imagination, and I travel in my mind's eye. I do not like the scores to have vocal notes, because they act as a limitation to these flights of fancy.
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You really don’t have a life when you’re working. I always think 'oh, I’m gonna see everybody on my days off. I’m gonna read so many books and see so many films' and then three months go by...
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My fault has been honesty and I've been sentenced to a lifetime of independent movies, and that's it. That's how it feels right now.
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Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem – but all in vain until He is born in me.
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I don't like to interview people in front of their friends; they clam up.
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Not so in haste, my heart! Have faith in God and wait; Although he linger long, He never comes too late. He never comes too late, He knoweth what is best: Vex not thyself in vain; Until he cometh, rest. Until he cometh, rest. Nor grudge the hours that roll: The feet that wait for God Are soonest at the goal. Are soonest at the goal. That is not gained by speed; Then hold thee still, my heart, For I shall wait his lead.
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Consumers are more interested than ever before to learn about the food they eat.
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For me, typography is a triangular relationship between design idea, typographic elements, and printing technique.
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You hear these horrible stories about the FBI just doing all these nasty things to people. And you know what? In my case, I didn't experience any of that, probably because the way I treated them. I was like, 'Okay, what do you want to know?' So I kept going back to their offices on a regular basis.
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We have to give our poor, innocent, and undeserving-of-our-badness characters trouble in order to make them characters in a story.
