John Allison Quotes
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In rural parts of China, it's like stepping back into the era of my grandfather or great-grandfather - not much has changed.
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I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
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It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
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Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
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I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.
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I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie.
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I see a New York that is once again the empire state.
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I had real big boobs, and I just got tired of knocking over stuff. Every time I eat, 'Oh, Lord'. I'd carry a Tide stick everywhere I go. My back was sore, so it was time to have a reduction.
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Georgia O'Keeffe proposed that I live with her. She was in New Mexico then, and I wanted to be in New York.
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals?
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The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.
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Florentine had grown more or less immune to the charms of spring.
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One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows.
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I prefer atrophy over exercise any day.
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I think happiness is love.
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I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
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I like old people falling over, that's what makes me laugh.
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America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.
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As a storyboard artist, you have to be able to draw anything.
