Allison Winn Scotch Quotes
If we always take the path of least resistance, if we embrace inertia, if we never leap, if we never accept accountability for our choices, how can we find any triumph in our victories or any remorse in our losses?
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This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.
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I want a place where I can have horses.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.
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Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
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Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.
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The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art.
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The ability to throw 100 mph cannot be taught, cannot be learned, it can only be God-given.
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That's how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It recreates some forgotten terror. Something we'd like to think we're grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It's something you'd hoped was healed.
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Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.
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Sometimes as writers, we try and put narrative development above character development. We try to move our characters around like chess pieces that do our bidding. The problem with that is sometimes the characters do things they shouldn't do. Things that are inorganic.
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Lots of people think that the Premier League would be good for me, but my mum is Spanish, and I really have that dream to play over there.
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A lot of my friends who are white are like, 'Dude, I can't get an audition; it's all Hispanic and black.' It's about time.
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I see a lot of young kids hit me on Twitter all the time, like, 'I want to be famous! Listen to my mixtape! I wish I could be like you!' But a lot comes with it. It's not easy.
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As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!
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I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.
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What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.
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If we always take the path of least resistance, if we embrace inertia, if we never leap, if we never accept accountability for our choices, how can we find any triumph in our victories or any remorse in our losses?
