Alissa White-Gluz Quotes
I have a lot of people I think are important to me, a lot of different causes I like to talk about also.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
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'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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In the days when I was the big hero, the money wasn't much. Nobody made anything on television in those days.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.
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The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
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We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
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As far as piano players are concerned, Oscar Peterson is my very favorite. I also like McCoy Tyner. I think that the big jazz stars, both now and in the past...how shall I say it? These guys are as great as Bach, Beethoven; all of them. People don't know it yet. If jazz survives and is put on a pedestal as an art form, the same as classical music has been through the years, a hundred years from now the kids will know who they were, with that kind of respect.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.
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There's no secret, but inspiration has to find you working. And that's one of the key things that I've always remembered. And if I put my mind to it tonight, I think I could take a guitar, and by 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning, something will have happened - I'll have had something to hang onto. But I think that's the key.
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I had a lumpectomy. It wasn't that bad. Six and a half weeks of radiation.
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I have a lot of people I think are important to me, a lot of different causes I like to talk about also.
