Allison Mackie Quotes
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'Star Wars' was, I mean, it was the first time I remember seeing three movies that all kind of went together. It was just an amazing final understanding of what a trilogy was.
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I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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It's always good to play tennis with a better player to bring out the best in you.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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I write all the time. I always have. I can pick up my horn to warm up, and an idea will pop into my head, and I'll write it down and file it away for another time.
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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.
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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
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I must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way.
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I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.
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'Luke Cage' is about a reluctant superhero who lives in the shadows in Harlem. He has to decide if he's going to step up and fight for the heart of the city and defend the people against Cornell 'Cottonmouth' Stokes, my character, who kinda wants to keep everything in order and intact. I'm the criminal element in the story.
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So many designers only sketch and leave pattern-making to others. Pattern-making is important so you know the structure. Then if someone tells me, 'I can't make a pattern from that sketch,' I can tell them, 'I will make it' and then they are quiet. If I can't make it, I don't design it.
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Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.
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If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.
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There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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I can't sing, perform, do anything apart from Christ. I have no power or strength of my own.
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When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I was smart.
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I remember where I was when I first heard 'Boyz N The Hood' – 126th Street and Normandy, South Central, Los Angeles. I remember that I was on my porch. What they described in that song was so vivid and so clear to me because it was the kind of life I was used to witnessing and partly experiencing in my neighborhood.
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I didn't get to be this smart by not being stupid
