Troian Bellisario Quotes
Hollywood is a challenging place; it's very easy for people to lose their heads. Fortunately, I grew up on it and I think I have a little bit of a head start.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.
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My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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One of my biggest flaws is I don't take advice.
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When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.
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To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one from scratch, just as any carpenter will tell you that it is more difficult to restore an old house than to build a comparable new one.
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To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism.
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No man ever listened himself out of a job.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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It's impossible to be more flat-chested than I am.
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I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. 'Cars' is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.
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The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.
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Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law.
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Eileen Ford wanted me to fix my nose and my teeth. I said, Sure, great, but I really had no intention to.
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Nobody has to tell me about the glories of the capitalist system. But what concerns me is that there no longer seems to be a commitment to make the opportunities afforded by technology and capitalism universally accessible.
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Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it.
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Hollywood is a challenging place; it's very easy for people to lose their heads. Fortunately, I grew up on it and I think I have a little bit of a head start.
