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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By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.
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When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model. Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either.
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I will never, ever forget the electricity I felt the first time I listened to the 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - and many times since.
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Having an adventure shows that someone is incompetent, that something has gone wrong. An adventure is interesting enough - in retrospect. Especially to the person who didn't have it.
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Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.
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I devour books. But for the longest time, I refused to pay attention to genre or labels.
