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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You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause!
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.
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My theory is that comedy comes from little people.
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At GDAX, we want to see new protocols and their tokens flourish.
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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.
