Aaron Allston Quotes
I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
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I've taken the love of fashion from my mother, and journalism from my father.
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I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.
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What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time.
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We have to worry about protecting the Constitution.
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It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.
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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I'm rap's vigilante. I'm out for justice.
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It's always good to play tennis with a better player to bring out the best in you.
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Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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I want to be the Joan of Arc of fashion. I want to be the link between the runway and the real woman.
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There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).
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Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.
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The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.
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My tendencies are much more the Henry James thing, where we sit in silence at the table for three minutes, and our whole lives are changed because of a revelation that never quite happens but almost bubbles to the surface.
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After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.
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If I want to do something powerful or special, then I contact people I think are smart, educated, inspiring and I'll say, "What are you doing? How can I help?"
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I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.
