Dorothy Allison Quotes

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Dorothy Allison

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• The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Work
  • You
  • Opportunities

• Indeed, our British friends have decided to leave us - which is very sad for all of us - but life goes on, and the European Union as well goes on.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Sad

• To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Real
  • Bad
  • Artist

• Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Life
  • American
  • Fear

• If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Way
  • Difficult
  • Aim

• I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Think
  • Won
  • Tournament

• We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Way
  • Shoes
  • Same

• I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Way
  • Never
  • Air

• I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Trying
  • Death
  • Medical

• I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Independent
  • German
  • Tradition

• One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Death
  • Words
  • Autobiography

• Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Great
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises for themselves.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Think
  • Want
  • Weekend

• To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • God
  • Nature
  • Faith

• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • House
  • Religious

• I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Death

• I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Me
  • Smart

• South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • Great
  • Government
  • Values

• In July of 2010, I lost my finance job in Chicago. Instead of updating my resume and looking for a similar job, I decided to forget about money and have a go at something I truly enjoyed. I'd purchased a semi-professional camera earlier that year and spent my free time taking photos in downtown Chicago.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • Time
  • Money
  • Job

• I've always had a big voice, but I'm very aware of when you need to belt or go all out like that - when it's necessary and plot driven - as opposed to just screaming to scream, which I hate.

  

  Lindsay Mendez
  • Hate

• There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success would be love, I guess, and failure could still be love, but the bad side; and loss.

  

  Aimee Bender
  • Bad
  • Success
  • Moments

• My first book, 'Contest,' had a guy fighting aliens in the New York Public Library. The second book, 'Ice Station,' and 'Temple' were present-day military thrillers.

  

  Matthew Reilly
  • Book
  • Guy
  • Present

• There's a hardness I'm seeing in modern people. Those little moments of goofiness that used to make the day pass seem to have gone. Life's so serious now.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • People
  • Life
  • Moments

• Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.

  

  Dorothy Allison
  • Free
  • Walking