Alison Mosshart Quotes
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I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.
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I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I only have room to do things that I have a love for in my life.
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I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
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In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.
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I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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I think skilled salesmen have the ability to work out who you are and pick out aspects of your personality. They almost manipulate you, in a way, to make you buy their product.
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Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They're making a mistake.
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Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus.
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It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth.
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Over the years, my art box has gotten bigger and bigger.
