Alan Carrun Quotes
'Civilians' is a term I love. It's what Elizabeth Hurley used to describe people who weren't on TV.
Quotes to Explore
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The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.
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I live in a rural residential area. It's a great place for a walk. I'm at my happiest when I'm listening to my iPod while walking around where my feet take me.
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I don't think it's fair that we cannot guarantee every child in this country a great education and that, in New York City, in some cases, your child is at risk in some part because of the policies the union endorses.
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It's important for people of colour to have the opportunities to play characters that are as nuanced - as three-dimensional, as human - as the characters who we traditionally see getting to play the protagonist. The good guys and the bad guys. The reason that is important is because it's a better reflection of the reality of the world we live in.
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When I moved to Atlanta, I felt like an outsider - away from my friends and family except for the LGBTQ community.
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If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.
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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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Most people don't deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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I'm learning all the time." "Well, you're a scholar.
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Jazz shouldn't have any mandates. Jazz is not supposed to be something that's required to sound like jazz. For me, the word 'jazz' means, 'I dare you.'
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Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.
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When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.
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Even miracles take a little time.
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No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction. Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest. And taking it as a story, what do you think of it?
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Gluttony is mankind's exclusive prerogative.
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My family was always really encouraging, but acting was always something I thought was a bit of a pipe dream.
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In '32 we organized the Young Negroes' Cooperative League and had some degree of success in terms of establishing stores and certainly buying clubs in various sections of the country. I was designated as - I don't know what exactly - I believe it was director. I'm not sure what it was, but it had to do with getting out the necessary mail and all of that - organization.
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My grandfather so throughly considered cooking to be "women's work" that he wouldn't even enter the kitchen to get his own glass of water. My husband, born sixty-one years after my grandfather, shows his love by bringing me coffee every morning and whipping up chocolate-chip cookies for friends' birthday parties. I think it's fair to say that few young men these days feel less masculine for knowing their way around a kitchen.
