Allegra Huston Quotes
Because Dad was famous, I was so used to being identified as 'John Huston's daughter' that I couldn't think of myself as anyone else.
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Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.
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I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic.
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How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning a fight. It's a sport that's more about the strategy than anything. You lose or you win in your head.
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It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
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Phone are wonderful instruments, but I wouldn't want our daughter to marry one.
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Writing about where I was from and the people I knew was not something that would have occurred to me early on, because like so many Southerners of that period - the Sixties - I rejected those things when I went north.
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I don't think you ever leave Star Trek for good.
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Because Dad was famous, I was so used to being identified as 'John Huston's daughter' that I couldn't think of myself as anyone else.
