Allen Covert Quotes
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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I originally just wanted to be an artist.
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What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
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They pollute. It's not because morally they have a problem, but more because the mechanism now is rewarding those who cut corners to save cost.
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These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.
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If everything is the same, nothing is special.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
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It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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The Granite State needs a senator who knows that New Hampshire comes first - and leads like it.
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The emotional stuff is the biggest challenge, for me to access that. As life passes, you encounter difficulties and tragedies, and so it becomes easier. 'Carnivale' required that of me, and it was really hard.
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Where there is humility, there is more success, and lasting success.
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I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.
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There have been many days when I have had to work up to writing 'Irredeemable' because I just didn't feel like wallowing in that world, feeling those emotions... but that's the process.
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My dad had two, sometimes three jobs. Besides running the Commodore Music Shop in Manhattan, he did jazz concerts, and he ran this great jazz label, Commodore.
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There's something about that idea of looking up and hoping, and thinking, 'I'm good.' Some things, like show business, are absolutely subjective. People look at a TV show and think, 'I could do that.' And maybe they could do that. But they're not.
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Honestly, I just like to make movies. The funnier the better.
