Alissa Nutting Quotes
I think humor is like a shield that lets you get as close to the sad sad flame as possible - far closer, oftentimes, than drama.
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I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
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I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.
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We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.
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They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.
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It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship.
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Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
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I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
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The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.
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If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the voice, and we shot this scene when we arrived in Australia during the actual filming of Episode 3.
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My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.
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I'm not, like, an action-hero guy.
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The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.
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I clean up really well. I can get dolled up.
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I owe a great deal to Harold Hobson, doyen drama critic of the 'U.K. Sunday Times,' who championed me as Shakespeare's Richard II at the 1969 Edinburgh Festival.
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I love to do comedy, and I don't think of things as drama or comedy. I think that if it's a funny line, it's a funny line. If it's a funny moment, it's a funny moment.
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I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it.
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Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.
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I think humor is like a shield that lets you get as close to the sad sad flame as possible - far closer, oftentimes, than drama.
