Dorothy Allison Quotes
I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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When we say a show is successful, it's because, relative to the investment, it's successful, relative to how else we would have spent that money on licensing something else, does this creation - did it attract the audience that it was built for.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
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The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.
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I think to be Miss U.S.A., first of all, you need to represent everybody, all of us here.
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I don't go out of the way to take special care of myself.
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If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.
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I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did - I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are.
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I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.
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With Ferrari sometimes, you win or you lose depending on what the mood of the team in general, of the group in general.
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We as humans are so imperfect. We are always looking for something more and always going astray from Jesus. Whether you believe in him or not, but he is always there with open arms. God never abandons you. He is always waiting for you to come back and when you do, you won't be scolded - you will be embraced.
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We didn't have MTV, and I was desperate for something. You know, you're young, you want something off the beaten path. And Twin Peaks was like, surrealism on network TV.
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As both a consumer and producer of newspaper articles, I have no beef with pay walls. But before signing up, I read the fine print.
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I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain.
