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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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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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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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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I want to spend as much time as I can with my family, yet I'm aware of having to bring home the bacon.
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I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.
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But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.
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My social circle, my best friends, are all people that I met at UCB.
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I like Israel. The fans are incredible. It was the best.
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I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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You have seen me at my worst and at my weakest. Let me show you my best.
