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.
Quotes to Explore
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.
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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.
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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.
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To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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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.
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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.
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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.
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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.
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Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into another.
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'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!'
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My character Preet in 'Fanaah' had a very distinctive appearance: loud make-up and dramatic clothes.
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One important lesson is this: It is okay to try and fail at something, but it isn't okay to not try. Parents need to encourage their kids, and it all starts in the home.
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Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
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I designed a theater magazine that was full of plays and essays about the theater, and then I worked at a theater school. By osmosis or something, I was learning from reading plays and not being analytical about them, but when I would read them, the joy in me was mostly from imagining them in my head and visualizing them.
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Protest politics has been vibrant against Bush and the war in Iraq, but it's been intergenerational. This doesn't seem to be a resurgence of student activism.
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I have always been psychic. The walls of any room I walk into talk to me.
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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.
