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 call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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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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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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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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I won't do things for money. I can't.
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It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.
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Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.
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The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
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If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.
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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.
