Alison Owen Quotes
With 'Suffragette,' I felt that a female writer would be good, and considering the subject matter, who would be better to write the script than Abi Morgan? She was the first choice, and she happens to be a woman.
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It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
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No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.
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Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
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I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
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As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.
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'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have done 'Luke Cage' if they hadn't made time for 'Moonlight.'
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I don't know why, but I'm continually amazed to think that two and a half billion of us around the world are connected to each other through the Internet and that at any point in time more than 30 percent of the world's population can go online to learn, to create and to share.
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I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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When people sit in front of a microphone, they feel empowered.
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The challenge with SXSW and events like it is it's so big and overwhelming, it's easy to get lost in the crowd.
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The thing I miss about L.A. is time. I feel like I had much more time there, partly because no one is ever really doing anything.
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The UK public have repeatedly shown enormous generosity to those in need.
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I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.
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With 'Suffragette,' I felt that a female writer would be good, and considering the subject matter, who would be better to write the script than Abi Morgan? She was the first choice, and she happens to be a woman.
