Dorothy Allison Quotes
I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people. Neither is anyone I have ever cared deeply about.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I love nails, so I literally just search the word 'nails' on Tumblr and start looking.
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.
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I really like using the softening cream. It helps me go out there with confidence to do what I need to do, and at the same time, it's very functional and helps keep the hair out of my mouth so I can focus on pitching.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
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'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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I really never thought I would be an actor professionally. I was very academic and was like, "That's so irresponsible. I would never do that." And now, here I am.
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To be honest about it, sex was not worth the wait.
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A lot of people seem to believe in a big-daddy-God or a big-cop-God or a big-king-God. They believe in a kind of superperson. A few believe God is another word for nature. And nature turns out to mean just about anything they happen not to understand or feel in control of.
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I don't think that I could ever be a strict dad. I never grew up with anybody strict in my life... I'm not saying I'm a role model by any means or anything. I think the fact that I wasn't told what not to do all the time - my spirit kind of told me things that I shouldn't - I got to develop on my own. It's part of your common sense.
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I would do it [study UFOs], but before agreeing to do it, we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the L.A. case, the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination.
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I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people. Neither is anyone I have ever cared deeply about.
