Dorothy Allison Quotes
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister became unmarried and pregnant during high school, and she kept saying, 'This wasn't supposed to happen! Why is this happening to me?' Someone should have given her another book to read.
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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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I'm a firm believer in the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights. I don't think you should infringe on the type of weapon somebody should buy or the number of rounds in a high-capacity magazine.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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I am really bad with cleaning my closet.
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You would not believe that Paula Patton and I have the same trainer.
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Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'
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It's important to be able to have representation for black queer women, because I feel like there's not much representation for them in the mainstream.
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I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
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Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
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If there's one thing government needs desperately, it's the ability to quickly try something, pivot when necessary, and build complex systems by starting with simple systems that work and evolving from there, not the other way around.
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When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister became unmarried and pregnant during high school, and she kept saying, 'This wasn't supposed to happen! Why is this happening to me?' Someone should have given her another book to read.
