Alison Fell Quotes
Hairspray and blusher, eyelash curlers, eye-shadow palettes the size of tea-trays. Even before they left school it was as if they were already rehearsing for some witless kind of womanhood.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.
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One of my major objectives is to build a long-term enterprise, to build shareholder value over time.
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In 'The Founders,' his new book about top charter schools, Richard Whitmire traces both the 'revolution' these schools brought about in many American cities as well as a parallel phenomenon, 'the charter pushback campaigns.'
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.
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A national security letter cannot be used to authorize eavesdropping or to read the contents of e-mail. But it does permit investigators to trace revealing paths through the private affairs of a modern digital citizen.
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I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.
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It must have been fascinating for Bono to have Johnny Cash do a cover of his song, and hear how he translates the words that he has used. And it would be fascinating to see a great director do his take on my work.
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I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
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All of us in the modern world are constructing our identities, largely through social media, for a larger audience.
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I'm not good at dressing up fancy; I always just do my thing, which is whatever I'm in the mood for.
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Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions, of years they have co-evolved to live in local climate and soil conditions.
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One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
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Honestly, I was watching Marvel films and was always crestfallen: Where are the super-Asians? People are looking to be represented by their heroes.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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Hairspray and blusher, eyelash curlers, eye-shadow palettes the size of tea-trays. Even before they left school it was as if they were already rehearsing for some witless kind of womanhood.
