Allen Grossman Quotes
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The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
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I do think it's possible to change for the better.
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We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.
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Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.
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The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.
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Yes, you want to do studio movies, but I also want to grow as an actor, and an actress like me is not going to get roles where you grow and evolve in a studio film. It's just not gonna happen.
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Are we disheartened by the breakup of the family? Nobody who ever met my family is.
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I walked into a gunfight with a knife to kill you, and cut you so fast when your blood spilled it was still blue.
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At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.
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Dolce cosa era la patria.
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I, along with something like 5 million other people, insure to enable me to go into hospital on the day I want; at the time I want, and with a doctor I want.
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What is the question now placed before society with the glib assurance the most astounding? That question is this—Is man an ape or an angel? My lord, I am on the side of the angels.
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A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.
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I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.
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My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts.
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Women are young at politics, but they are old at suffering; soon they will learn that through politics they can prevent some kinds of suffering.
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The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.
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It seems to me, that if people only knew how hard it was for me to endure life, they would find it easier to forgive me for all the wrong things I’ve done and all the good things that I have failed to do. And they would still find a little compassion within them to pity me.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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When I was green and blossomed in the Spring I was mute wood. Now I am dead I sing.
