Bobby Allison Quotes
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.
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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
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The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.
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I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.
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I've always had the wish, the nostalgia to be able to write detective novels. At heart, the principal themes of detective novels are close to the things that obsess me: disappearance, the problems of identity, amnesia, the return to an enigmatic past.
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It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right.
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I actually studied literature at university, so I'm much more of an arts-based person, but I remember I actually did enjoy physics because you got to do weird experiments. I remember we did this thing with static where we all had to put our hands on this static ball to see that your hair would all stand on end.
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Keep up appearances whatever you do.
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What I have to do from here is I have to do the best I can to carry on.
