Dorothy Allison Quotes
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Y'know what? This is what I go by: It doesn't matter how good-looking a guy is, it just depends on his personality. If a guy can make you laugh and make fun of you, then that's what would win me over. So, yeah.
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You've got to be all-in on this sport; you can't be one foot out the door.
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I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
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It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
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I consider myself very lucky, essentially - I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche before.
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I'd like to do a little bit more adventurous TV. Maybe Showtime or HBO or just a little bit edgier. But I would go back to NBC, CBS, whatever.
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I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.
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We have the sort of beautiful older woman here in Paris. People like Loulou de la Falaise and Betty Catroux, all these beautiful looking women over 60... So there is culture here in France that even if you are older, you can stay beautiful.
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So, I didn't get moved up because of celebrity status or anything like that. I got in line, and I passed the test. And they realized that I was sick enough, and as soon as the liver became available, I got one.
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In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.
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I feel it's my responsibility to turn people on to great music.
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I have no great desire to play a great role. You can't make quality on TV anyway. It's always a manure pile. You're on the top, or you're on the bottom, but it's still a manure pile, and I'm not sure the movie industry isn't like that, too.
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Wer den Daumen auf dem Beutel hat, der hat die Macht.
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While I am watching over you, no great need will overcome you. be mindful of the name of the Trinity And none shall overcome you.
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Fear is the enemy of logic.
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I'm South American, and growing up in New York, I had the total stereotypical way of thinking of what Texas was about. I'm like, Texas. Big. Cows. Cowboys. Cowboy hats and cowboy boots. And barbeque.
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You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.
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I first learned of the value of employee stock ownership plans while representing Louisiana's 3rd congressional district, home of employee-owned Acadian Ambulance.
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Ali was a guy that had a lot of discipline. If you hung around him, you'd be able to get some of that discipline that he had. And I learned from that. He was a sweet man.
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We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!
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I continue to develop some things for myself and also take advantage of good parts as they come along.
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Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
