Allan Sherman Quotes
The whole city gives you the impression of impermanence. You have the feeling that one day someone is going to yell, "Cut! Strike it!" and then the stagehands will scurry out and remove the mountains, the movie-star homes, the Hollywood Bowl--everything.
Quotes to Explore
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn't take them all the time.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
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I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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There are essential elements for our public schools to fully develop the potential of both students and educators. They should be centers of community, where students, families and educators work together to support student success. They should foster collaboration.
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What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way.
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I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
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I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi.
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I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.
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I think until Britain acknowledges just how much of a presence black people had here before the Sixties, then there are certain stories that are not going to be inclusive of what I have to offer.
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When something comes to my brain, I don't ignore it. You never know what it's going to turn into.
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George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already.
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The whole city gives you the impression of impermanence. You have the feeling that one day someone is going to yell, "Cut! Strike it!" and then the stagehands will scurry out and remove the mountains, the movie-star homes, the Hollywood Bowl--everything.
