Alissa White-Gluz Quotes
Women in general have to think about certain things that men don't - like being safe in the street at night or something.
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I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
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I feel like if you flip through my Instagram, you'll kind of see the same angles and poses every time. That's the trick to having people love your Instagram selfies. It's all about your angles.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
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As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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Even among those who I would not count as 'friends,' I have met many people online who have simply commented on my work or are interested by what I do.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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There is a lot of pressure on pop stars, and I think a lot of it is the pressure that we put on ourselves. In our minds, we build up these huge, huge standards that we think people want from us, and actually, when you break it down, people just want you to make music and perform to the best of your ability, but anxiety can stop you from doing that.
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Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.
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Patriarchy appears to be everywhere. Even outer space and the future have been colonized. As a rule, even the more imaginative science-fiction writers (allegedly the most foretelling futurists) cannot/will not create a space and time in which women get far beyond the role of space stewardess.
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The '70's came and went already.
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Women in general have to think about certain things that men don't - like being safe in the street at night or something.
