Alanna Ubach Quotes
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I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language.
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I feel like acting is a ton of fun. It's the freest and most alive you can be.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.
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When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.
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I want to be in control of how my music is released and how I create it. What people don't talk about when they talk about major labels is how many artists get dropped or funding gets dropped when they don't recoup quick enough.
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I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.
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It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.
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The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.
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As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.
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I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.
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I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.
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Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.
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I was always the poor kid, even though I very much tried to pretend to be the other way. Always well presented. Always really active in the school, doing fashion shows, plays, involved in every single aspect of the school. Overcompensating, I think, for the fact that I knew I wouldn't be going on the ski trip every January.
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One day, I saw a statue of Benjamin Franklin, and I said to myself, 'I can do that kind of work, too.'
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It doesn't take that many years for a kid to realise that they're going to die. It's always there in the back of their mind the rest of their lives.
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If I wasn't modelling, I'd probably be an intern somewhere, working for someone who interned the year before me.
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I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.
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I go to Union Square Park, mostly to take care of squirrels.
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You can't hide behind race any more. You can't hide behind class structure any more. You can't hide behind family. You need to produce.
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I always felt that, through it all, there was a really strong, forward, positive, constructive accomplishment by the American people during that period, if you consider that during the period from 1954 to 1965, this country broke through the caste system.
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We discovered that there was a great deal of keen interest in America for the kinds of products that we thought could be produced here. Also there was an interest in Britain for Australian material generally.
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I act with my gut instincts.
