John Allison Quotes
I'm really interested in how people feel out new friendships, and at the start of college, that's really important.
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I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.
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Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.
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The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
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I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.
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South Africans are caring, compassionate and loving people.
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I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
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Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.
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It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.
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If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of our waking hours working. So it becomes this incredible window into a whole variety of things: who we are human beings, how the economy works, how people relate to each other, how stuff is made, how the world spins on its axis.
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People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.
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Fashion has always been a source of stress for me because I don't know how to dress myself. I'm short-torsoed with big boobs, and I don't really understand what a belt does. But you get on these shows, and people fit the clothing to you, and suddenly you learn, 'Oh, I should be wearing petite jackets.'
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What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.
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Marriage is socialism among two people.
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Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
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People ask what I really did in the three years between 'The Dreaming' and 'Hounds of Love.' I spent it with my family, living a normal home life.
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Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.
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People never explain to you exactly what they think and feel and how their thoughts and feelings work, do they? They don't have time. Or the right words. But that's what books do. It's as though your daily life is a film in the cinema. It can be fun, looking at those pictures. But if you want to know what lies behind the flat screen you have to read a book. That explains it all.
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I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
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[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are frequently good portraits.
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You need to believe in yourself.
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I thought if I didn't write my own show, I'll rust.
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I'm really interested in how people feel out new friendships, and at the start of college, that's really important.
