Alison Sweeney Quotes
I'm so busy and there's so much going on, that the gym or a workout can't be a last minute thought, like, 'I have nothing to do today I'm going to go to the gym.' Now it's, 'When am I going to find time to work out tomorrow?'
 
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	I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.   
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	Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.   
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	I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.   
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	All the terrorists are basically migrants.   
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	Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.   
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	If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.   
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	Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.   
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	I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.   
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	I view myself as a male artist.   
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	My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.   
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	I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.   
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	My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.   
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	Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.   
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	People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?   
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	I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.   
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	No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.   
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	The dresses I wore are in the Smithsonian now.   
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	A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring them.   
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	My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.   
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	I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.   
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	I'm so busy and there's so much going on, that the gym or a workout can't be a last minute thought, like, 'I have nothing to do today I'm going to go to the gym.' Now it's, 'When am I going to find time to work out tomorrow?'   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					