Alan Gerry Quotes
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Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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Without trust, you have nothing: trust is so important to me.
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I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.
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To be honest, being a fat girl, when people are telling you you need to eat, it's the biggest thrill of your life.
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There was a time in my early 20s when I would leave a movie theater and just feel so alone and lonely afterwards. I just felt like my life was nothing like those characters up on the screen, so perfect all the time. Why didn't I talk like that? Why don't I look like that?
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More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.
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The point of launching a maternity line, for me, was to do something different.
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The 1960s were really a life-changing time.
