John Allison Quotes
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The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.
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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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My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without feeling he was repeating himself. That's the worst thing that can happen to a writer.
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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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It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.
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What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts.
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How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, 'What does he do? What does he do?' My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.
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The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to speak out the most hidden and intimate things.
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As a storyboard artist, you have to be able to draw anything.
