Allen Collins Quotes
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.
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People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
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Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
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The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
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If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
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I always admired Hugh Jackman as an actor in movies but also in theatre because I'm a big fan of Broadway musicals.
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A majority of Americans support Social Security and Medicare, a progressive tax system and a government that regulates business in the public interest, but most share deep skepticism about the government's ability to do all this well.
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The time is come when women must do something more than the 'domestic hearth,' which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.
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What haunts me is not exactly the absence of literal space so much as a deep craving for metaphorical space: release, escape, some kind of open-ended freedom.
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Time found our tired love sleeping,And kissed away his breath;But what should we do weeping,Though light love sleep to death?We have drained his lips at leisure,Till there's not left to drainA single sob of pleasure,A single pulse of pain.
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I have people in my family with bipolar disorder, and for years I've watched them struggle with the disorder's extreme moods and often devastating consequences.
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The way I navigate scenes is through what I perceive to be the emotional truth of the character: what he wants from moment to moment.
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If you're industrial person with a digital capability, you can transform an industry and yourself. It is hard for a digital person to become an industrial.
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Every vice president since Mondale has lived up on this hill, on the twelve-acre campus of the Naval Observatory in Northwest Washington. It's a pretty house with a wraparound porch and a white turret.
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As we see thousands of public and private Christmas trees and nativity displays around the country, they remind us again of the powerful American value built into our Constitution: our freedom of religion.
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None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives.
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As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of the good Lord.
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I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.
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I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.
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Become a good all-around human being.
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If there is a tendency in modern television I hate, it is the unstoppable march of the dramatic reconstruction to tell the stories of anything from an ancient Egyptian battle to the early life of Paul Gascoigne.
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There was a split on the board and John appealed to me for help.
