Alison Goodman Quotes
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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If I get in a dark spot, I'll listen to some Adele and cry about it.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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I thought I knew how to work out before I immersed myself into boxing. I now know what an extreme workout really is.
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The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
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I'm very independent.
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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I love make-up and the process of transforming my face for a night out, but I definitely don't believe in wearing it every day. I think it's really important to be comfortable with the way you look without it.
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As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
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Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.
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I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
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Time is money, every moment is costly, So I ration emotion, 'cause existence exhausts me.
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If there is something that you have to do, resist the temptation to do it under duress. Ask yourself, "What's the worst thing that would happen if I didn't do this?" And if you can get away with not doing it at all, don't do it. And then imagine what would it feel like to have this done. Spend a day or two, if you can, just 15 minutes here, 5 minutes here, 2 minutes here, here and here, imagining it completed in a way that pleases you! And then, the next time you decide that you're going to take action about it, the action is going to be a whole lot easier.
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You have seen me at my worst and at my weakest. Let me show you my best.
