Alison Krauss Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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My mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain, and I grew up in Miami. So there's maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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When I think about making 'Within,' it was not a very fun experience at all.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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There are a bunch of images that are thrown in our faces all the time about what we're supposed to look like at 14, 15, 16. It's confusing. I think every woman can identify with that struggle.
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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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I'm actually not on Twitter.
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When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.
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'Entourage' was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they wanted to believe they could go on private jets and be hanging out in Hollywood, but as a show, comedically, it was not funny. Not a funny show. It's funny, ironically, because of how terrible it is.
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The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.
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Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?
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I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.
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I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why - but we really need to land on that why. That's what I've been exploring in my writing for many years and trying to get better at.
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We don't want to be our own niche. We're filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row are we going to talk about the fact that we make films and we are women? Enough already.
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I'm a perfectionist - I could rewrite forever.
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I don't remember as a kid wanting to do or be anything else but drive something, be a race driver.
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You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it.
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The leading character isn't always the most important or interesting character; when people think that the protagonist is the character portrayed, it's people who haven't read Shakespeare.
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Having a boy play a girl (and when I say 'play a girl' I don't mean that he is represented as a girl, because he is represented as a young man) is complicated. He knows he's looking at photographs of a girl and copying those poses. So the audience sees him as a man, but he can only see himself as a woman, because that's the model he's looking at. It was a really interesting exchange.
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A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.
