Alison Tyler Quotes

I put a lot of myself into my characters when I write.

Alison Tyler

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Song
  • Single
  • Kid

• I'm covered up, but I'm still getting these comments that say I shouldn't be. But the girls who wear the bikinis, they're being told they're too revealing! Enough. It's their body, their choice.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Body
  • Enough

• Sometimes, it's good to stick to your guns.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Good
  • Sometimes
  • Guns

• Notice the times in your life when you go above and beyond simply because you care so much.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Life
  • You
  • Care

• I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician.

  

  Imelda May
  • Great
  • Talk
  • Reveal

• When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Up
  • Better
  • Victories

• I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist. And my early excursions on the electric guitar were curtailed when Eric Clapton came on the scene, and I decided I was never going to be in the same arena as a Clapton or a Peter Green.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Myself
  • Thought
  • End

• I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Music
  • Mother
  • Me

• Our job as friends, mentors, parents, and writing coaches is not to write anyone's college essay. That's cheating. Plus, it sends a discouraging message to the teenager that he or she can't be trusted with this important assignment. Trust the student to write the essay, but verify that it gets done. Gentle editing and proofreading are allowed.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Done

• I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files.

  

  Wen Ho Lee
  • Best
  • Protect
  • Used

• I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Got
  • Punk
  • Spoke

• A couple of defeats, and you are gone - that's the danger of World Cups.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • You
  • Couple

• My having HIV has no bearing on my business.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Business
  • Hiv
  • Bearing

• Young people are already leading on climate action. I see it at rallies to reject the Keystone XL dirty tar sands pipeline. I see it in the push to demand justice for communities being run over by fracking operations.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Action
  • Justice

• A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Death
  • Beautiful
  • Eyes

• First lady has been a thankless position. Eleanor Roosevelt was brilliant and had strong views. She was criticized for her politics and for her appearance. Mrs. Roosevelt was attacked for being too involved in politics. Bess Truman was criticized for being uninvolved in politics.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • She
  • Strong
  • Politics

• I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Mad

• 16. Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Different
  • Mind
  • True

• I have a lot of friends who, especially in Tennessee, were looking forward to getting married who wanted to wait until it was legal in the state that they live in to get married.

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • Live
  • Friends

• The Earth gives us life, not the American government. The earth gives us life, not the multi-national corporate government. The Earth gives us life. We need to have the Earth. We must have it, otherwise our life will be no more. So we must resist what they do.

  

  John Trudell
  • Life
  • American
  • Earth

• Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?

  

  Paul Keating
  • Morning
  • Television
  • Silly

• We live in such a consumer-based world. Everything we do, someone else has provided for us, so there is something really empowering about knowing that once I have found the right pieces of wood, I can start a fire and keep myself warm and skin an animal to eat and make its skin into leather.

  

  Neil Jackson
  • World
  • Live
  • Fire

• The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.

  

  Lillie Langtry
  • Work

• I put a lot of myself into my characters when I write.

  

  Alison Tyler