Allison Joseph Quotes
It's fun to see someone grow as a writer, moving from their first workshopped poems to publishing their earliest poems to having a book accepted for publication. It's great to see poets with persistence succeed.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.
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My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.
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Donald Trump did denounce David Duke's support.
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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
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Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.
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I can be a bit extreme. I'll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes.
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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.
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I would kiss you, had I the courage.
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Guys should not be allowed to use the Internet all day long. So sad.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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I grew up in Wisconsin loving hockey. I mean, I started when I was three years old on skates.
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I think they tried the 3-D revolution at least five times throughout history, and it never seemed to work. However, finally, 'Avatar' did it.
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I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.
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I wanted to show my maturity. The criticism I got made me grow up. It motivated me.
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And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild, And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.
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For whatever reason, I have never separated the technical from the ethical.
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Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.
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It's fun to see someone grow as a writer, moving from their first workshopped poems to publishing their earliest poems to having a book accepted for publication. It's great to see poets with persistence succeed.
