Alice Mattison Quotes
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.
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Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society.
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Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them.
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Early versions of Microsoft Word left a lot to be desired. However, to the company's credit, it quickly learned where Word fell short, made the necessary changes, and repeatedly introduced new versions of the software.
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I read so many things because a colleague or a friend will post something, and I'll be able to learn a tremendous amount only because they drew attention to it. So I try to do that for others, and that's the great thing about social media. It's not always a narcissistic cesspool or waste of time.
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
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My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
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I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more.
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Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
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It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind of thing that makes me feel like - even as it's been bestowed upon me - I must continue to live up to what it means... Being the younger laureate in the age of social media is a new challenge.
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From the beginning of physics, there have been those who imagined they would be the last generation to face the unknown. Physics has always seemed to its practitioners to be almost complete. This complacency is shattered only during revolutions, when honest people are forced to admit that they don't know the basics.
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I think that over the last few decades, we have seen better economic outcomes than in the past.
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I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
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We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.
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I love it when people can help me with my work, so I do show it.
