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 don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
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: I could understand principles of Perl source in 2-3 days [. . .]Gee, it took me about eleven years.
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Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.
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Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.
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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.