Alice Mattison Quotes
I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
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New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name.
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We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.
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I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
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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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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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I have a wide spectrum, a wide demographic. I have the young girls, I have the gay community, I have many regular theatergoers. I do feel a tremendous responsibility and pride to be a role model for some of these young people.
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One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.
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By mid-morning, I take a break from my novel and work on my Sunday Style column, which is about pop culture and what I find on the web. I usually start writing it at the beginning of the week and give it a couple of days to marinate before I return to it.
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What I'm interested in is how your career choices can affect your private life, romantically or with your mom, your relatives, your friends, your hometown, and how media manipulates information - not newspapers or blogs, but the magazines that people impulse-buy that tell you what's hot and who's not.
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When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind.
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Music has always been around with me.
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Once you open up the Pandora's box of race and gender... you're never done.
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I think I understand why baseball players today are a little standoffish, because the world has changed. You don't know who's trying to take advantage of you, what people really want.
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Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.
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I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.
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Overconfidence comes from fear and doubt, and you boast an ego when you're feeling less than.
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I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me.
