Alannah Myles Quotes
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.
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C Kalyan has been amazing and totally committed as a producer.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.
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The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
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The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.
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I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
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There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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I'd never make something pointless that I don't believe in. I don't think I could do it.
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My dad teaches film and has done for 40 years, so I've really grown up in a movie household. All the walls are covered in movie posters, and many of the evening meals at 7:30 revolved around film discussions.
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In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
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I've chosen jobs that were sexy because I wanted to do them.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I also dance to music that makes me feel sexy in front of a mirror.
