Alison Owen Quotes
People in third-world countries are less eager to see movies full of angst over existential problems, and who can blame them. They've got other fish to fry. They'd rather see a few great dance routines and the guy end up with the girl.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react.
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
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It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.
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Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
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I define God as an energy - a spiritual energy. It has no denomination. It has no judgments.
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I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it.
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I have my diehard R&B fans on one side of the spectrum and my diehard pop and dance fans on the other side of the spectrum.
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People in third-world countries are less eager to see movies full of angst over existential problems, and who can blame them. They've got other fish to fry. They'd rather see a few great dance routines and the guy end up with the girl.
