Alison Brie Quotes
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
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I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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The Hubble Space Telescope is more than remarkable. It has answered just so many of those fundamental questions that people have been asking about the cosmos since people were able to ask questions.
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When you are reluctant to change, think of the beauty of autumn.
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The older I get, the more I realize the truth is the simpler the food, the more exceptional it can be.
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A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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I try to be very much in control when it comes to work. I have a strong work ethic.
