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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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 could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off government largesse enjoyed trinkets that I only dreamed about.
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Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying.
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Preachers are not called to be politicians but soul winners.
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The constant variety is the most interesting part of my job.
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I thought Brittany Packnett, who was one of the Ferguson activists, really interesting, smart young lady, really impressive - you might want to talk with her. So she was one of the organizers of the Ferguson movement, ended up joining our task force. She came in here and she just knew her stuff.
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I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that theres so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to you.
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A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.
