Byron Allen Quotes
I'm listening to the audience. Too many people in Hollywood make what they want to see and not what we want to see. I'm about us. Not about me.
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.
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My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
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That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
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All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly socialized scientists with whom I associate. Tone of voice means a great deal to me in the course of debate. I despise the arrogance and doting self-regard so frequently found among the very bright.
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Androgyny is embedded in our cultural mythology. In many creation stories, the great ‘He-She’ created life on earth, and the Hindu fertility god, Shiva, assumed both sexes to attain “divine sensual delight.” Often, shamans achieved their ‘mana’ (air of sacred authority) by assuming a double-sexed persona.
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India's rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.
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I never speak ill of dead people or live judges.
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I seem to have a soft spot in my heart for Australia and Australian actors. After having worked with one in 'Cinderella' and a multitude of them in 'Cats,' I've wanted the opportunity to actually perform 'down under.'
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I'm listening to the audience. Too many people in Hollywood make what they want to see and not what we want to see. I'm about us. Not about me.
