John Allison Quotes
Careers are not all up, up, up; do good work, continue to grow as an artist, and opportunity finds you. I have no sour grapes.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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I'm uncomfortable with the limelight. I'm not the type to go to the places where I know I'll be seen. I'd rather keep a low profile.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
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The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.
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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
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I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.
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In today's retail environment, competition comes from every conceivable retail format. To succeed, we have to operate more efficiently and compete more effectively against players at all levels of the retail demographic. There is no question that this is a bold and exciting move, and one I believe will have a positive impact on competitive retailing for American consumers in the longer term.
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Est deus in nobis; agitante calescimus illo:impetus hic sacrae semina mentis habet.
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Careers are not all up, up, up; do good work, continue to grow as an artist, and opportunity finds you. I have no sour grapes.
