George Allen Quotes
I don't like talking about myself. I don't like talking about these introspective things.
Quotes to Explore
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I describe a soulmate as a 'soul-nurturing mate' - someone who nurtures your soul - thereby promoting insight and growth.
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I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
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I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
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The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.
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I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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I spent a lot of time with the LAPD. I spent six weeks training, weapons training, ride-alongs, surveillance, interviewing them, in all different departments and divisions.
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Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.
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I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.
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Everybody wants to be a star right now, to be heard, to have a voice, so you have to give the confidence for people to have that ability - and give them the wardrobe to become a star.
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It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle.
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I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.
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You know, people understand fear and opportunity. It may look different, but it's really the same thing.
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My guilty pleasure is Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
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If I had my life to live all over again, I really think I would have been a fit person. Looking around me, I realise that the men and women who walked and ran and swam and played sport look better and feel better than the rest of us.
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The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and it's only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.
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There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!
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I expect to see, on television, the porcine Governor of the State of Michigan decrying to the whole world that my client should be in jail for rendering kindness and compassion, primarily because the porcine Governor of the State of Michigan is a religious nut.
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I like to have quiet evenings and relax.
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Horror is a part of science fiction. It belongs in the definition of sci-fi.
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Diversity does not preclude political stability.
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I actually don't have a bad hairline.
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I don't like talking about myself. I don't like talking about these introspective things.
