Allison Joseph Quotes
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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I envision the script as a story in my mind, memorize the entire thing and have it play out. It helps me figure out where my character needs to go.
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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I've always been happy with my body.
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The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.
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A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.
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This coupling together of science with international peace, is, I think, particularly significant.
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Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.
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I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.
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I know that 'boots on the ground' is a scary phrase and that the Western world has gotten used to sterile attacks.
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I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
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I grew up with Woody Allen and early Spike Lee movies in which New York was such a specific character. The city has a certain vibe and beat which really informs your entire existence.
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Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.
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Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.
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I started writing probably around when I was 15, because that's when I picked up the guitar. That was also around the same time when I began to create my own music, and everything really just clicked for me, and I knew this was what I was going to do.
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Every time I'm home from tour I try to write some new songs, but it can get really hard trying to keep up with normal life, I always get so behind.
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Editing is work, and it's hard to do while working on one's own writing.
