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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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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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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My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.
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The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.
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My philosophy is to not be scared of anyone. If I play well, great; if I don't, I learn from the match and move on.
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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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As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.
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I've loved taking on roles that have a very universal message that lots of people can identify and relate to - and at the end of the day can get people talking.
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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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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?
