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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I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.
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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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The poets are wrong of course. But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.
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I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a young New Yorker, it was one city. When I was a grown man, it was another city. I worked with many dance organizations and many wonderful people. In the '90s, it became kind of a hard and unwelcoming city in many ways. It became conservative, like the whole country.
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All minorities think they're immune, but we're absolutely part of the one in five that gets skin cancer! It's a myth, and myths are meant to be debunked!
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You must remind yourself: The #1 reason to merge your life with a man is that he makes you feel happier - not more anxious and depressed.
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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.
