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 use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
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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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I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.
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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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If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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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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All I ever wanted really, and continue to want out of life, is to give 100 percent to whatever I'm doing and to be committed to whatever I'm doing and then let the results speak for themselves. Also to never take myself or people for granted and always be thankful and grateful to the people who helped me.
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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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Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.
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I might be into writing... I'd like to try it someday. I always come up with some good ideas.
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What led to my change of views about the Clintons was working through the research and writing on the book on Hillary.
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But what I did think would be interesting is if we created a fictitious story of our own, and then took these stories that we had collected and assigned them to characters who would be played by actors.
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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.
