Brooke Allison Quotes
Reach for the sky, it's not as high as it seems. Just follow your heart go as far as your dreams.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.
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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
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Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.
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When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.
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I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.
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I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.
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There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis.
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I've been real fortunate to be on a lot of great teams.
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You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.
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There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
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I want to take a more international direction with my career.
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There were no Latin people on 'Star Trek,' that this was proof that they weren't planning to have us around for the future.
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Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood. This sets the stage for further repression and violence that spread all too easily to victimize the next minority group.
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What the Lord wants is that you shall go about the business to which He sets you, not asking for an easy post, nor grumbling at a hard one.
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As far as we know, as a species, the only reason we were put on this planet is to help continue life.
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Reach for the sky, it's not as high as it seems. Just follow your heart go as far as your dreams.
