Ralph Allen Quotes
Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.
Quotes to Explore
-
Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.
-
Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
-
Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
-
I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
-
Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
-
Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
-
Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
-
Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
-
'OLTL' has now allowed me to sing through the character as Blair. If you've followed my 20-some-odd-year career, you know I am a singer.
-
I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
-
For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.
-
Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
-
It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.
-
A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
-
When it comes to women, there has been a tendency to define women in sports in the context of their relationships - they watch games because their husbands watch. They're interested because their kids play a sport. They buy tickets to a sporting event because it's a way to spend time with family.
-
The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
-
If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
-
Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
-
I have said that propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation have always been part of political warfare. Social media and other new platforms have given it a new life and reach through which the fake news phenomenon can reach everywhere.
-
If it wasn't for 2 Live Crew videos wouldn't look like they do and rappers wouldn't sound like they do.
-
The successful artists are completely narcissistic and self-referential. Every song is about them. They talk about themselves. They talk about what they have. They talk about what they're going to do to somebody else. They talk about what they're going to get.
-
The news is what it is. It's going to be good, it's going to be positive, it's going to be negative. It's going to have all sorts of effects on candidates always.
-
It's fun for me to play people that are just kind of odd.
-
Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.
