John Allison Quotes
I did comics on the Internet because it was free, and if I had made printed copies, I wouldn't have known what to do with them. But I knew how to make a website when most people didn't, and back then, that was enough!
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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I like things simple.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.
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It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.
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The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year.
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Films are just consumables.
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For me, even in my first book, the pleasures of writing anything magical is that it has to be physical. It has to be grounded and very much in this world. Then, I get to play with all the consequences of this new thing.
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During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
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I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn't even give me an honorable death.
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If somebody asks me why we played in Baku, I would say: People live there, homo sapiens live there.
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I did comics on the Internet because it was free, and if I had made printed copies, I wouldn't have known what to do with them. But I knew how to make a website when most people didn't, and back then, that was enough!
