Melissa Mathison Quotes

I have two little children. I didn't want to be missing their childhood while I was away, busy writing about children.

Melissa Mathison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChildrenChildhoodWritingBusyWant

We all have the ability to be dangerous and do things which are morally wrong.

Jessie Buckley

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There is a gentleness in Michigan that you just can't replicate.

Jennifer Granholm

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See, at a certain point it becomes cool to be boy crazy. That happens in sixth grade, and it gives you so much social status, particularly in an all-girls school, if you can go up and talk to boys.

Rosalind Wiseman

SchoolCoolCrazyYouGoTalk

Two, I actually learned a lot of things that served me very well when it came to repeating performances on stage, because it is a craft and you do need a technique for it.

Ron Silver

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If everything is disposable or recyclable, how does that make us feel about ourselves and each other?

Jonathan Miles

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Actually I liked that 'Let the Right One In,' that Swedish vampire movie.

David Sedaris

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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

Anton Chekhov

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Throughout high school and even my only season in college, a lot of people have been doubting me, saying I can't do this, do that, and I'm too small, but at the same time, I just focus on me and the team.

Anthony Bennett

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While bringing about reforms and improving institutions, we have to be cautious that while shaking the tree to remove the bad fruit, we do not bring down the tree itself.

Pratibha Patil

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I love anything by Sisley for face and Lancaster for body.

Poppy Delevingne

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It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Todd Rundgren

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What I have learnt is that it is important to pursue your passion more than your legacy; if you have a passion with a purpose, then everything else fits in.

Nita Ambani

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