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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When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
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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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I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.
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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 live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed.
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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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But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.
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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.
