Alison Wright Quotes
Sometimes as an actor, it's really hard to give yourself permission to take your time and move slowly and not feel like you're holding people up or you should be going faster.
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.
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You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'
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Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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My dad is always there for me, and no matter how busy, he always makes it a point to answer my calls. I think he knows what is best for me better than me and is very involved in planning my career. Feel blessed to have a dad like him.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.
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There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.
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I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
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But my research had taught me that the tissue of contradictions that was my personality was itself, at best, a poem, where “poem” is understood as referring to a failure of language to be equal to the possibilities it figures; only then could my fraudulence be a project and not merely a pathology; only then could my distance from myself be redescribed as critical, aesthetic, as opposed to a side effect of what experts might call my substance problem, felicitous phrase, the origins of which lay not in my desire to evade reality, but in my desire to have a chemical excuse for reality’s unavailability.
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I honestly thought as long as I got there before the ball went up, everything would be cool. I've been doing it that way my whole career and it never was a problem, even when coach (Larry) Brown was here.
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You can find things about me you don't like. And frankly, I don't want to hear it.
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Popularity is when other people like you. Happiness is when you like yourself.
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Sometimes as an actor, it's really hard to give yourself permission to take your time and move slowly and not feel like you're holding people up or you should be going faster.
