Alison Tyler Quotes
I devour books. But for the longest time, I refused to pay attention to genre or labels.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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Things that happen in Wyoming are things that wouldn't happen in a big city - we've got bears, we've got a lot of shotguns - in Absaroka County, everybody's got a shotgun in the back of their car!
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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Business today consists in persuading crowds.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!
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I have lifestyle requirements. Photos, meetings, lunches, dinners, facial care, tooth care. It requires an exorbitant amount of money.
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If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues - because we are what we think we are, but we're also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There's always a hidden face.
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I enjoy very much communication. I think that scientists need to communicate.
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Denmark nursed that anger and it kept him free.
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Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.
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I actually came out the year that AIDS hit the front pages. So there was this mixed feeling about it - excitement that life's finally begun, but it was completely tied up with mortality and danger and politics.
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I devour books. But for the longest time, I refused to pay attention to genre or labels.
