Allen Grossman Quotes
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People take things so seriously.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.
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In 2005 in Iraq, the constitution was written. A new government was elected. That government was trying to take office in 2006.
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My life is studded with a series of coincidences.
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
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My parents had normal jobs, and I didn't just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn't have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, 'I have to be able to sing.'
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I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.
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I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
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I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.
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Arafat carried out what I consider to be atrocities.
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.
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That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.
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When I was writing songs or performing or producing or dabbling in movies or even putting my career on hold to go to art school, I was just following my muse. A woman who did that then was criticized for having no direction. Today they call it versatility.
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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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Winning titles, that's what I'm looking for.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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A poem is about something the way a cat is about the house.
