Alison Elliott Quotes

That's one of my problems is that there are so many songs to sing that I sort of get indecisive about what I want to do in a show - because there are so many possibilities! There are so many great songs out there.

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• I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Star
  • Religion
  • Belief

• I do love pasta. It gets me into trouble. If I could give up pasta and bread, I'd look like Cate Blanchett.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Like
  • Look
  • Trouble

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Up
  • America
  • Light

• Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • Women
  • Interesting

• The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Genius
  • Public
  • Forgives

• I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Hands

• A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Crazy
  • Ignorant
  • Newspaper

• It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Opportunity
  • Funny
  • College

• It's much like playing jazz, flying. It's multitasking in real time. You have a number of instruments that alone won't tell you exactly what the airplane is doing but together give you a picture of everything that's going on.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Time
  • Real
  • Together

• The minute you step off that podium is the minute you start preparing for the next world championship. That's kind of how I work. You celebrate for a brief moment, then you move on.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Work
  • Moment

• Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Freedom
  • Action
  • Forgiveness

• Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. If this trend continues, truly catastrophic consequences are likely to ensue from rising sea levels, to reduced water availability, to more heat waves and fires.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Growing
  • Change
  • Water

• How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Humanity

• It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Speak

• I think love is the through line and it's universal and it doesn't matter what period of time, time or place, or people, that's something we all connect to. That's the thin thread that I think keeps it altogether.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • People
  • Time
  • Think

• North Korea is the errant teenage child, aren't they? Or toddler - they're holding their breath until they get their way.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Way
  • Child
  • Breath

• 'Air' is what the world looks like: An inconvenient mashup of human politics and divine geography. We leave bits and pieces of ourselves and our history in every place we encounter.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • World
  • History
  • Air

• Deceit, Deceive, Decide just what you believe... I see faith in your eyes, Never you hear the discouraging lies. I hear faith in your cries... Broken is the promise, Betrayal... The healing hand held back by the deepened nail... Follow the god that failed.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Believe
  • Faith
  • Promise

• We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Water
  • Dark

• We show our faces to demand human rights for everyone, everywhere.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • Show
  • Demand
  • Human Rights

• I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo - and I kept it all my life!

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fashion

• That's one of my problems is that there are so many songs to sing that I sort of get indecisive about what I want to do in a show - because there are so many possibilities! There are so many great songs out there.

  

  Alison Elliott
  • Songs
  • Show
  • Possibilities