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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Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.
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Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.
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Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?
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I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.
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The calamities of tragedy do not simply happen, nor are they sent; they proceed mainly from actions, and those the actions of men.We see a number of human beings placed in certain circumstances; and we see, arising from the co-operation of their characters in these circumstances, certain actions. These actions beget others, and these others beget others again, until this series of inter-connected deeds leads by an apparently inevitable sequence to a catastrophe.
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I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain.
