Aly Michalka (Alyson Renae Michalka) Quotes
When I think about old Hollywood and the glamour of those days, women like Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn were not dressing the way some girls dress today. There was a certain mystery about them, and I feel like that's gone in our industry.
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I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.
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Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
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Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
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One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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Life is too short to be on a diet.
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The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
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Just because you're selling out shows doesn't mean you deserve better treatment than the person next door.
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Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.
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I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.
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Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'
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The audience may not have felt it was right, and the author may have felt a little upset, but every part I've played I've twisted around in my mind until I've made it into something of my own. Looking back over it, I didn't deliberately sit down and plan like that, but it does read like it.
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I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.
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I've always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.
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Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.
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I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.
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Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.
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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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You can’t be a progressive and be opposed to pension reform.
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Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.
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Taxi drivers all over the world, by the way, are under Newspaper Guild contract to give easy quotes to foreign correspondents.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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When I think about old Hollywood and the glamour of those days, women like Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn were not dressing the way some girls dress today. There was a certain mystery about them, and I feel like that's gone in our industry.
