Melissa Mathison Quotes

If children are given some real content, they can feel powerful with their own understanding of it. I think a movie like 'Indian in the Cupboard' will instruct them how to proceed as people. They can think about whether they would have done something the way a character did, how they would have felt about an event in the story.

Melissa Mathison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CharacterChildrenPeopleThinkFeel

It's very hard to balance being there for somebody else and taking care of yourself.

Jennifer Grey

YourselfBalanceCareBeing There

It's the moms who always have to work a little harder, to make everything right.

Ann Romney

WorkRightAlwaysEverythingLittle

I have a street mind. My whole mindset when I first got to the NBA was, 'I'm bringing that street to the game,' and, 'I'm going to be the hardest guy on the court; I'm going to be the hardest guy on the planet.'

Metta World Peace

MindGameMindsetStreetFirstGuy

When US-led forces toppled the Taliban government in November 2001, Afghans celebrated the downfall of a reviled and discredited regime.

Anand Gopal

GovernmentDownfallForcesTaliban

Few occupations pass the solitary hours more fruitfully than the playing of a musical instrument.

Stephen Hough

MorePlayingPassMusical Instrument

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.

Stephen Hawking

UniverseWillForeverExpandEver

Boys and girls are not the same.

Tucker Carlson

SameBoys And Girls

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

Desmond Tutu

PeopleTryingYouWhiteGoodness

Athletes are still exploited. If they blow out their knee, if they somehow don't meet the mandates of a coach, they lose their scholarship. They don't get their degree.

Cory Booker

LoseScholarshipMeetCoachOutGet

They sent me some tapes of the original Mole and I thought it was pretty intriguing. I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there. It was fun. Turned out to be good.

Corbin Bernsen

GoodFunMeThoughtInterestingSee

If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal.

Brad Paisley

GreatWaterYouDownTopGet

Generally, speed skaters don't run that much. I'm a little bit of an exception in that I run a lot.

Apolo Ohno

SpeedRunLittleMuchExceptionLot

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