Melissa Mathison Quotes

We weren't your mainstream '50s family. Both my parents had wonderful, eccentric, artistic friends who treated us as friends as well. How your mind worked was considered important.

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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It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies of Kim Jong Il.

John Bolton

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Not many college students know what they want to do.

Andie MacDowell

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I would never want the show to be a Democrat show or Republican show, because for us the show's more important than that. It isn't for everybody else in the world, but it is for us.

Matt Stone

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When the 'greats of all-time' put out their first albums, it wasn't a thousand features on it. And I'm one of the greats in my eyes.

Tory Lanez

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I'm in a position where, theoretically, I could play the same ten concertos and make a very good living bouncing around playing Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky and Barber, but I really think artists should keep pushing limits and trying new things.

Joshua Bell

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You know, looking at it objectively, I've written one or two good books.

Doris Lessing

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

David Viscott

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The process and the great smells it produces make everyone hungry and get everyone's mouth watering. And it gives men a chance to cook.

Bobby Flay

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Making music is an inward and outward gesture at once. I make it because I'm communing with a side of myself that might help me look people in the eye. But at the same time, I'm reaching out, in a way.

Arca

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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Anthony Trollope

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With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I've found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying.

Wilt Chamberlain

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I love Starbucks. Maybe that's a bit sad. But I definitely need my caffeine. It's what gets me out of bed in the morning.

Nikki Sixx

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