Alison McGhee Quotes
It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only.'
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Surprise is key in all art.
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I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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I know it sounds strange, but I'm one of those people who goes to a coffee shop to drink coffee.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.
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A girl's best friend is her pride.
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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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It's no surprise that I ended up in sportscasting. I lived this world with my father, Mike Storen. Dad was a sports executive for most of my childhood.
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I love cars, but I love bikes more.
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Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just moving scenery. It's kind of like the equivalent of Great Danes. It's the way you keep your grass mowed. It's the way you keep your weed-whacking to a minimum.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.
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Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.
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Probably the most dramatic pieces in my wardrobe would be capes.
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Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.
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The Arabs are one of the least developed cultures. They are typically nomads. Their culture is primitive, and they resent Israel because it's the sole beachhead of modern science and civilization on their continent. When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are.'
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I don't know what metalcore is. I know what rock n' roll is... It's not rocket science.
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It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only.'
