Allison Joseph Quotes

I do bring my teaching together with my writing. I make students write in class, and do the same prompts I give them. I'm always on the lookout for teaching poems - poems that inspire me and my students to write poems in response.

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• The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Different
  • Live

• I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Home
  • Emotional
  • Dreams

• I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Together
  • Church
  • Myself

• Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Words
  • Opinion

• Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Trying
  • Change

• Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Body
  • Model
  • Walking

• We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • World
  • Country
  • Training

• To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Job
  • Feeling
  • Know

• People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of locals go to McDonald's, Applebee's and the like.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Up
  • True

• Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Words
  • Friendship
  • Solitude

• All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Better
  • Crime
  • Level

• It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Father
  • Sports
  • Brother

• Seriously, I don't think there's any right way to do anything apart from if you're just being you; then it's a sincere situation.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Think
  • Situation
  • Seriously

• I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like that, but to me, I've always found it to be a much more informative question to ask somebody what they read.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • People
  • Think
  • Question

• Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into another.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Personality

• 'That narrow window, I expect, Serves but to let the dusk in - ' 'But please,' said I, 'to recollect 'Twas fashioned by an architect Who pinned his faith on Ruskin!'

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Faith

• My character Preet in 'Fanaah' had a very distinctive appearance: loud make-up and dramatic clothes.

  

  Anita Hassanandani Reddy
  • Up
  • Character

• The idea of Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet so inflaming the fanboy community is amusing, since that group's 20/50 vision also had it tsking its disapproval about Michael Keaton as Batman and Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Community
  • Vision
  • Green

• I hate watching myself on screen! I absolutely hate it, it's so hard to watch. I can see myself in magazines, but watching on TV or movies is like, 'Ugh.'

  

  Kristin Cavallari
  • Hate

• I never say someone is powerful.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Powerful

• Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times' enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other.

  

  Daniel Okrent
  • Opinion

• I have the advantage of being pretty small, so if I'm flying myself, I'm flying coach. To save the money. I just put in my headphones, and it's no big thing. I keep my head down, wear a hoodie or a hat - but sometimes not even that. I'm small. People miss me.

  

  Anna Kendrick
  • People
  • Money
  • Pretty

• In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.

  

  George Earle Buckle
  • People
  • Avoid
  • Speculation

• I do bring my teaching together with my writing. I make students write in class, and do the same prompts I give them. I'm always on the lookout for teaching poems - poems that inspire me and my students to write poems in response.

  

  Allison Joseph
  • Writing
  • Teaching
  • Students