Nancy Allen Quotes
The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
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On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.
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A pig has a plow on the end of its nose because it does meaningful work with it. It is built to dig and create soil disturbance, something it can't do in a concentrated feeding environment. The omnivore has historically been a salvage operation for food scraps around the homestead.
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I've been lucky enough to work with some of the best TV directors there are, and I've learned from how they had to handle when things don't go quite according to plan.
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I know that I'm never as good or bad as any single performance. I've never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
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The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.
