Alison Rosen Quotes
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I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.
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In 'Clockwork Orange,' you're there with your eyes, watching all those things, your brain goes off, ahh, exposes you to so many things, and at the end of the day, it's just like a roller coaster. Why do you jump in a roller coaster? You want a thrill.
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I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.
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For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
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The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.
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I remember starting out and covering songs.
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I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.
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I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
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I sleep better on the road than I do at home. I'm used to sleeping in a million different hotels. I'm not home very often, so when I get home, I have things I want to do.
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When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.
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Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
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Sometimes you design a shoe, and you think this one is a winner, but you never know when something will be such a crazy phenomenon.
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The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.
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It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.
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Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.
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Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.
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I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.
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I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.
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I embrace my weirdness and the things I maybe didn't used to love about myself. Those are things that make me different.
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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Every time I go to big events, it's a trip. I feel like that kid who shouldn't really be there.
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I'm not a super carbonated guy: some people like drinking their beer like it's a champagne, right? It's not my vibe.
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Drinking is a fast-forward button; it makes you feel close to a person so quickly.
