Alison Moyet Quotes
I have never truly applied myself. Lots of things have come too easily to me and at too high a level.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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Having a book censored means something. It means you have deeply offended one or more people who felt they needed to protect unsuspecting readers from your inflammatory words, thoughts, and images.
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Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.
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We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the crisis.
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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
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I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
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I was the hallway clown in high school.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.
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Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.
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The devil made me do it.
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I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.
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You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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I am really precise about who I want to work with and, no matter the timeline, I push to get what I think would be cool.
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What I feel most strongly here being in Congress is kind of the burden - the good burden - of representing all of our military.
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I was only 5'10'' until I was a senior in high school.
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I love Tike Alicar, The Anarchist. But I love Edie Sawyer, U-Go Girl, too. I was a little in love with her.
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I have never truly applied myself. Lots of things have come too easily to me and at too high a level.
