Alison Lurie Quotes
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.
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I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.
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Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
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The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony.
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The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.
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I was wrong about that young man of yours. A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. Now, whenever that young man looked at you he looked like a sheep. I take back all I said this morning. It is genuine.
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As a child, I lived in Germany at the Ramstein air force base, where my dad sang at a nightclub in Kaiserslautern. My parents couldn't afford a babysitter, so when I was, like, ten or 11, I would go with them to the bar until two in the morning.
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I roll from my bedroom into my workroom in the morning and craft-craft-craft.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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We say something every morning when we decide how to dress.
