Alice Mattison Quotes
We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
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I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know is that we can draw a line to an issue that can conserve what we already have and what's left in a way that we can actually breathe the air, drink the water, actually grow things in soil - that matters in a real, practical way.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
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When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.
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I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.
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My parents don't have any showbusiness links. They are so far away from it.
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I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.
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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work - related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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One wrong move, and you destroy your career.
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I am the most skilled parallel parker the world has ever known.
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I believe the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction presents the greatest threat that the world has ever known. We are finding more and more countries who are acquiring technology - not only missile technology - and are developing chemical weapons and biological weapons capabilities to be used in theater and also on a long range basis. So I think that is perhaps the greatest threat that any of us will face in the coming years.
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One of the trickiest things about 'Game of Thrones' is just seeding those first couple of episodes with that basic information that people need to know, both about the world and the ground rules of the world, and the relationships between the characters, as far as who means what to whom and why.
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We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.
