Melissa Mathison Quotes

I go to movies with my children and see fat kids burping, parents portrayed as total morons, and kids being mean and materialistic, and I feel it's really slim pickin's out there. There's a little dribble of a moral tacked on, but the story is not about that.

Melissa Mathison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 3, 1950 - November 4, 2015

Topics

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At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.

Jhonen Vasquez

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Simperium seems like a genuine utility for our own apps, and for other people as a service. And Simplenote, as a product, I love, and it's just darn handy.

Matt Mullenweg

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I don't like gross monetary inequities. I firmly believe that the wrong people and the wrong professions are being rewarded, and rewarded absurdly, and that the hardest work the obscenely rich do is ensuring that they preserve their privileges, status symbols, and bloated bank accounts.

Michael Dirda

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It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

John Wooden

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My sister and I truly are best friends.

Solange Knowles

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I don't understand how you can have product-market fit and not a lot of people wanting your product. The two go hand-in-hand.

Michael Seibel

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I always like to improve myself.

Mohamed Salah

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My grandfather was a vicar, and there was quite a lot of churchgoing when I was growing up. It's a world that I spent a lot of time around.

Julia Davis

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But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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When you're in a church, and you're singing about the presence of the Lord, it is so hard not to get overjoyed because I know Him.

Deborah Joy Winans

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The question is, why are we doing so well? The answer is, I try not to think about it too much. I just do what's fun.

Art Bell

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I was 13 when my parents moved to Israel, and I was put in a Scottish mission school. Ninety-nine percent of the children were Israeli... Suddenly, I found myself speaking the wrong language, dressed in the wrong clothes, picked up by the wrong mode of transportation - an embassy car instead of a bus.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

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