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.
Odeya Rush
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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.
Fedor Emelianenko
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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.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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Music is about the performance.
Vanessa Mae
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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.
Karlie Kloss
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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.
Ban Ki-moon
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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
Abel Ferrara
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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
Umberto Eco
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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.
D. B. Sweeney
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The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
Pat Buchanan
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
Yakov Smirnoff
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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey
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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.'
Larry Hogan
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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.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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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...
Rachel McAdams
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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.
Natasha Lyonne
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Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem – but all in vain until He is born in me.
Angelus Silesius
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I don't like to interview people in front of their friends; they clam up.
Brandon Stanton
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
Yelawolf
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My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
Karl Shapiro
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I want you to know that I am innocent - and that I will fight to clear my name.
Martha Stewart
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How can God stoop lower than to come and dwell with a poor humble soul? Which is more than if he had said, such a one should dwell with him; for a beggar to live at court is not so much as the king to dwell with him in his cottage.
William Gurnall
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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.
Alice Mattison