Allison Brennan Quotes

Dig until you hit rock. Then take out that jackhammer and go a little deeper.

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• Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Experience
  • You
  • Acting

• I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • Wish
  • Morning

• Stock photos are used everywhere on the Net. Chances are, the website you are on right now uses stock photos somewhere - maybe as the featured image of the blog post. This also means that there will always be a large market for stock photographers.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • You
  • Now
  • Stock

• I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Real
  • Job
  • Father

• I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Trying
  • Loved
  • Show

• It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Writing
  • Health
  • Learning

• In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • People
  • Society
  • Dignity

• Part of me looks forward to a time when I have a family and a partner and I take less of my nourishment from social occasions. Having a little unit around me will make my working life easier, because it is quite lonely otherwise.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Rest
  • Enjoy
  • Horse

• Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Life
  • Slavery
  • Shadows

• The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.

  

  Jack McDevitt

• Ever present, potent, vigilant, in the breast of man, there is that which never became a party in his guilt, never consented to a wrong deed, nor performed one, but holds itself above all sin, impeccable, immaculate, immutable, the deity of the heart, the conscience of the soul, the oracle and interpreter, the judge and executor of the divine law.

  

  Amos Bronson Alcott
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Law

• I watch you sleep in the still of the night / You look so pretty when you dream / So many people just go through life / Holding back, they don't say what they mean / But it's easy for me / Since you came

  

  Kim Wilde
  • People
  • Life
  • Pretty

• I had to go to the store, I had decided, to bring back some apples - and I went past the store that sold apples and I kept driving, and driving. I was going south, and west, because if I went north or east I would run out of world too soon.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • World
  • Past
  • Driving

• The Republican ticket in 2012 was Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. Whatever again you think of them, that's not a dumbed-down ticket.

  

  Bill Kristol

• As much as I am one for real human interaction, I also want to make a show that's entertaining and that people want to see.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • Real

• I think I'm a romantic person, yeah.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • Romantic

• 'Flaubert's Parrot' is an amphibious book in which what appears to be a personal essay about Flaubertian writing is gradually, delicately transformed into an extremely sad novel in which the differences between character, author, and narrator are less clear than they appear at first glance.

  

  Alvaro Enrigue
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Book

• The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out. To have genuine empathy, not as a make-nice tool but as an understanding, is essential to the next step.

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Nice
  • Understanding
  • Grow

• You still have Top 40 radio now, but it's 40 different stations. There aren't many hits that everybody knows, and there aren't many real superstars.

  

  Weird Al Yankovic
  • Different
  • Real

• As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's how we get judged by our colleagues and that's how we get judged by the good lord.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Good
  • Stand
  • Colleagues

• Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.

  

  David Icke
  • Truth
  • History
  • True

• When I'm working on comics, I have to give myself a million deadlines, or I'd never get anything done. Comics are just so hard to make - I find it very difficult to motivate myself.

  

  Jessica Abel
  • Done

• Dig until you hit rock. Then take out that jackhammer and go a little deeper.

  

  Allison Brennan
  • Rock
  • Hammer
  • Dig