Melissa Mathison Quotes

Children are primed to take in something of more moral value than they're getting. I know I'm blowing my own horn here, but 'E.T.' had value to it in terms of the feeling about yourself that you walked away with.

Melissa Mathison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChildrenYourselfValueYouMoral

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

Amy Tan

LifeGreatInfluenceReadingMy Life

What does it prove, running in the AAU meet?

Steve Prefontaine

MeetProveRunningDoes

Everybody knows everything about all the teams now.

Roger Milla

NowEverythingKnowsEverybodyAbout

Societies or companies that expect a glorious past to shield them from the forces of change driven by advancing technology will fail and fall. That applies as much to my own, the media industry, as to every other business on the planet.

Rupert Murdoch

ChangeBusinessTechnologyPastFall

I love someone who can make me laugh. And someone who's secure - I think that's sexy.

Roselyn Sanchez

LoveMeThinkSexyLaughSomeone

I've usually had two styles: the Fletch character and the Clark Griswold character.

Chevy Chase

CharacterTwoStylesHadClark

It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another.

Colin Firth

TimeYourselfLoserYouAlwaysSeem

I always believe writing is an indispensable part of one's political armoury.

Boris Johnson

WritingBelievePoliticalAlways

Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.

William J. Clinton

OpportunityResponsibilityBestWorld

The Olympics are coming... and it's a big problem in American politics, because the problem with holding the Olympics this fall is that we're all going to be focused on the Olympics, and it makes that window of opportunity for Gore to win the election that much smaller.

Susan Estrich

OpportunityPoliticsWindowWinFall

You can't be seen in your mid-40s wearing leather pants. No leather pants anymore.

Scott Weiland

YouPantsLeatherSeenYourWearing

From my first published paper in 1946, my obsession has been to objectify inner experiences, to demystify the software of human existence. How? By relating changes in external behavior, systematically and lawfully, to changes in the brain.

Timothy Leary

BrainBehaviorChangesSoftware

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