Alison Rosen Quotes
Most things that I think about not talking about, ultimately I decide to talk about, and I feel better.
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I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.
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My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.
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In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.
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I guess I've always been really attracted to period pieces and always felt visually I was probably more made for the '50s or the early '60s than I am for a modern day.
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I'll be singing with The Blind Boys of Alabama, which is a great joy to me. I've done some work with them before, and they truly are amazing.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.
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People always say that Randy Moss can't stick to the rules. Even my own rules.
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I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.
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But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.
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My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.
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The thing that has always struck me is that there has always been a bit of a hole at YouTube when it comes to authenticity, human emotion, fun and play.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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I remember bringing some of my other friends to our table, and everyone at our table would look at them and ask me, 'What are you doing? Why'd you bring him?' It was annoying high school stuff that still goes on now. My high school was really bad.
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Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a shallow and dangerous attitude to have.
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I always try to be true to who I am and just be myself.
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What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
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As life forms, viruses are just inherently interesting. It's the microworld - this universe of life too small for us to see - but it's profoundly complicated, and immensely powerful. Ebola is like a beautiful and frightening predator. There is a wonder in the operations of nature that can't be denied, even when we're the losers.
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I have no problem with anyone being precise about small things.
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I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.
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He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over the hills of New Mexico. It was like a great violet velvet mantle thrown down in the sun; all the shades that the dyers and weavers of Italy and France strove for through centuries, the violet that is full of rose colour and is yet not lavender; the blue that becomes almost pink and then retreats again into sea-dark purple—the true Episcopal colour and countless variations of it.
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She was so ugly that I took her to a dog show and she won first prize.
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Most things that I think about not talking about, ultimately I decide to talk about, and I feel better.
