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.
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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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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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It is a happy day when I am asked to publicly recommend a book. It is also a dilemma. When I consider all the books I have loved and depended upon and profited from, how can I pick just one?
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Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.
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What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
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I've had to accept that - that everyone cannot love me. Because when there's love, there's hate. When there's light, there's dark. But it was really hard to accept as an artist that there's a lot of people that hate me, but on the other side, there are many more people who love me. I think everyone goes through that.
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I like making people laugh. That's fun for me.
