Alyssa Sutherland Quotes
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
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I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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It's up to you to define your own brand of leadership and your own version of success.
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There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.
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I have a lot of hobbies and I can be very remiss in reminding myself to go down to the basement to work.
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It's very sad that there's going to be a hiatus in manned space flight from the U.S. The Shuttle was a fantastic, hugely complex vehicle. It was inevitable it would come to an end, but this is the opportunity for the commercial world to get involved. As the Shuttle era ends, another window of opportunity opens.
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I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner.
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I like making people laugh. That's fun for me.
