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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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
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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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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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I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I'm concerned with this time-here and now.
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What I've learned is you don't have to strive for perfection, but you do have to strive to be a very hard worker.
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Our competition has always been anything that is wasting your time when you're bored at work. In a broad sense. We want people to come to reddit to find out what's new and interesting online, but we realize they usually do this when they should be working or perhaps when they start or when they end their day. And that's always been the goal.
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I couldn't identify with anyone. At school, I was considered very strange. I didn't understand the relationships between people.
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I do a lot of dry shampoo. My hair just works better when it's not as clean!
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I feel like if you've done something wrong, then you should keep on apologizing to that person.
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I'm just ah, actually developing a tv show for HBO, and I'm directing a film this summer, and actually I'm doing some live shows out in western Canada.
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When I say that I went to grad school in Iowa City, people often assume that I went to the famed writers' workshop MFA program at the University of Iowa. I didn't. I got a master's in journalism.
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We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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Actors don't need a lot of talk beyond the first few sentences. They may say they don't draw on their own life, but all actors do.
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I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me.
