Alison Brie Quotes
I like to be in pain when I'm getting massaged. That way I know I'm getting my money's worth.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
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The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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Retiring is the easy way out.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.
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I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that's when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.
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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
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I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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I'm the baddest among the bad guys.
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The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
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To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is … the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.
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Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition. (p. 132)
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For myself, it was continuing the family heritage and tradition. All of it bolied down into one thing.
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I turned six in 1977. Youth athletics then was nothing like this, and I wondered how things changed so much. I started looking at our societal emphasis on sports, using the most tangible metric by which we measure emphasis: money.
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I spend most of my time at concerts hoping for that one second that the artist looks at me, I look at the artist, and that's when I get to say, 'Thank you.'
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I like to be in pain when I'm getting massaged. That way I know I'm getting my money's worth.
