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.Alice Mattison
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
Odeya Rush -
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 -
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 -
Music is about the performance.
Vanessa Mae -
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 -
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 -
There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
Umberto Eco -
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 -
The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
Pat Buchanan -
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey -
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 -
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 -
Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem – but all in vain until He is born in me.
Angelus Silesius -
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.
Colin Morgan -
Casual games are a great way to spend time when you get bored. It's hard to keep people off all their little games.
Lea Thompson -
I believe, and this is perhaps too nationalistic a view, that the American style of acting puts actors quickly in touch with each other, so that their continuous presence in a company, as in England, is not absolutely necessary.
Arthur Penn
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Picture by picture, these criminals are being identified and arrested, and we will not let any phony concerns about human rights get in the way of the publication of these pictures and the arrest of these individuals.
David Cameron -
I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
Cameron Diaz -
'If the Jews were killed at Auschwitz or Treblinka or anywhere else...it wasn't a crime because they were Jews, it was a crime because they were innocent Jews who were being killed. It was their innocence that made...it a crime and not their Jewishness that made it a crime.'
David Irving -
Growing up, I was always super into fantasy and 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'Game of Thrones' and all of that, but I could never find black characters whom I really liked.
Amandla Stenberg -
We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.
Andy Rooney -
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