Alison Goodman Quotes
There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.
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My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
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Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.
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I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
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Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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I've got a transcendental way of thinking about things. I've got a galactic self.
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I run about four to five miles, three days a week. I have four young children, so pretty much the only time I can get away is real early in the morning.
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I'm a driven person, but I'm also cautious, and I overthink things sometimes.
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The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.
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The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.
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Usually, when you're taking over a team, you're restructuring, you're tearing it down, you're building it up again.
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The 'Iliad' covered only two months of the great ten-year war with Troy. At least six other epic poems preceded or continued the events in the 'Iliad', but they survive only as fragments.
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In my 30s, it wasn't cool to like Pauly Shore movies. It was cool to like them when they came out, then it wasn't cool.
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There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.
