Arthur Mattuck Quotes
When you write a book you're not allowed to wave hands too much, but you don't even have hands to wave—you have to wave pages.
Quotes to Explore
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Funny is an attitude.
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I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.
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Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.
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When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.
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Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of activism, oftentimes it makes a difference if something is women-focused. It's likely to get the attention of women much more easily.
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The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?
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Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.
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Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
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We're facing a natural disaster in the middle of an economic disaster. The federal government has to balance its budget the way our families do.
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Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.
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An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.
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You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history
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It's quite a thrill to be playing a hero.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
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When you write a book you're not allowed to wave hands too much, but you don't even have hands to wave—you have to wave pages.
