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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If you've got a good job, you should bust your butt to make your company as successful and profitable as possible.
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Sinatra slowly found a way to allow tenderness into the performance while remaining manly. He perfected the role of the Tender Tough Guy and passed it on to several generations of Americans. Before him, that archetype did not exist in American popular culture.
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I think it was 37 years that I did music.
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What prevailed was that it was a family story, so it didn't matter what the color. It was also the perfect subject matter for a miniseries: A best-selling book, a generational story, a social problem - they all made 'Roots' what a miniseries should be.
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Every dogma must have its day.
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Honestly, I just like to make movies. The funnier the better.
