Allen Wier Quotes
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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Initially, I thought problems on how the brain works to be the most interesting. But it was necessary to be practical and concentrate on less obscure matters when I entered Washington State College. Besides, there were no courses given in neurobiology.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.
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Being born Roman and Romanisti is a privilege.
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Africa is the future.
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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
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I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
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I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.
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I think you can totally be a totally normal kid from the suburbs of Chicago and go off and play shows. It's one of those things that when you go home, you're still the nerd you were when you left, and your parents still get to yell at you about cleaning up your room, and your girlfriend still drags you to the pet store.
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance.
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I came from the Groundlings Theatre in L.A., and there, you're guaranteed to at least try something out in front of an audience. At 'SNL,' only the best stuff gets picked, and it's taught me a very defined language of comedy. You learn the structure of a joke, which is not something I was very good at beforehand.
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The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.
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Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
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There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
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There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.
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When I first started out in cycling, if there were two girls there, that was successful; but now, if there are 20 girls there, it's just unbelievable. The growth of the sport is just incredible.
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I think when you're writing from your own life, it's hard because you realize that people have their own assessment of how they look, and they don't know how you will describe them.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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Literary theories will not make a writer write.
