Allegra Huston Quotes
I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people.
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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I eat healthy and don't go by a diet chart. The breakfast is usually heavy, complemented with short frequent meals. My dinner is high on proteins and low on carbohydrates.
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Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
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My father was an electrical contractor, while I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle to people in Juhu and Bandra, including celebrities like Mithun Chakraborty. Mithunda remembers me and is very proud of me. He can't believe that the guy who used to come to his house in short pants has become so successful.
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I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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As soon as I get home, all I want to eat is seafood.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I've to take time out to work on my albums because I'm passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.
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I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.
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I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.
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Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.
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I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.
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If you want something bad enough, take the steps needed to make it happen, no matter how long it takes. Sometimes you get lucky and can skip some steps, but most of the time you can't. The secret to achieving any goal is nothing more than putting in the necessary time and effort.
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Genuine goodness isn't discovered through postponement but must exist now or not at all. It cannot be based on what is not. We must find it in what is and what we truly see.
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Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.
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I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people.
