Alissa White-Gluz Quotes
I never took lessons. And I never aspired to be a singer until I was one in a band.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
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It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
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I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.
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My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.
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The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
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I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.
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Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.
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If you're not a beautiful person, you can't do anything about it.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
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Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.
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I'm fascinated by male vulnerability.
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I moved out to Los Angeles a fan of many people, and meeting people I put on a pedestal that just disappointed me. Without fans, this business would not exist, so I try and say that we're all on the same level.
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In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.
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I think losing out on jobs and, you know, being judged on your appearance... I definitely grew a second skin and got used to it, but more so now, I've realised it definitely contributed to a lot of things I feel about myself.
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We've had soldiers that were so badly hurt and killed. I want their families to get something.
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There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.
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I never took lessons. And I never aspired to be a singer until I was one in a band.
