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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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
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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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I think, as a kid, whenever you say you want to be an actor, you get discouraged, so perhaps if I had have listened to those people telling me that, I might have gone down the route of a teacher. But I was never really going to do that.
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Casual games are a great way to spend time when you get bored. It's hard to keep people off all their little games.
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I taught them how precisely to explode and still exist.
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The feeling of a fiction collapsing inside you. A fiction you’d forgotten was there. Frame, crossbeams, slats, braces, joins. Revealing the softer sapwood, which is marked by candle burns. ...Jonathan holding both of my hands under the table, one of the first times we’d really touched. You must think I’m a lunatic. No, I think it’s a beautiful story. About family and art and memory and meaning, how it’s made and unmade.
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In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.
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Trevor was as menacing as he was gorgeous. If he were a vampire, he'd be the dark kind, the kind that sneaks up on innocent girls and bites without a thought.
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I like stories where there's a center that's mushy and complicated.
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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.
