Alison Elliott Quotes
I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you don't recognize someone because they're so lost in the part.
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Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.
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I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.
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I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.
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I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.
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I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
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In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.
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Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.
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My husband makes sacrifices so that I can shine.
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I believe in working with the hearts of people, and not locking them up.
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You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
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I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
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Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.
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I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies – the ecstacies of awe and reverence – in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.
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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
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The way I choose parts is I look at the scripts... I choose a part by whether or not it challenges me.
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In many ways, anti-anti-Trumpism mirrors Donald Trump himself because, at its core there are no fixed values, no respect for constitutional government or ideas of personal character - only a free-floating nihilism cloaked in insult, mockery, and bombast.
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I think it's intelligent, emotional, character-rich storytelling - at the core, I think those are the most important elements, and I think they can be found across all of our dayparts. That's what, for me, ABC really stands for.
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It is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor. In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.
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I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you don't recognize someone because they're so lost in the part.
