Ivan Allen Quotes
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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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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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.
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There's no single company in the whole world that has a big-scale production base and at the same time has screening and distribution channels. Wanda Group is the first one in the world.
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
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The honest truth is no, I don't feel like I arrived. I don't feel like I'm worthy. My publicist says I'm not supposed to say that, but I don't feel I'm there yet.
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The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.
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At the end of the day, an actor is only a cog in the wheel.
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One of the reasons I love to come to Paris is because the decorative arts are so refined that I am always walking through one proscenium into another frame.
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Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
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Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
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There's something grounded about 'Ugly Americans,' so I think it's good that I'm playing a version of myself in these elevated cartoon circumstances.
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I don't mind people looking at me. That's never bothered me. I don't want them looking at me in my house; now that would bother me.
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Boxing is not about your feelings. It's about performance.
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Looking good is a commitment to yourself and to others. Wigs, killer heels, Pilates, even fillers - whatever works for you, honey.
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I had my first museum showing of my slide show in Rotterdam, in 1983. I love Rotterdam. I love harbour cities in general.
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I'm always afraid of making mistakes. I think I was born with that.
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I don't believe in a chronological way of doing things.
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Sometimes as an actor you're struggling to make things work. That was never the case for me with Big Little Lies script. It just kind of flowed out.
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We didn't make the mistakes that many other cities did.
