Allen Covert Quotes
I love IMDB. I love that people all over the country get that into it. When I was a kid, you literally had to go to the theater and stare at the poster to see who the hell was involved.
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
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I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
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I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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They hate whom they fear.
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If, in the schools, the classical language would no longer be taught, whom could we entrust with the writing of memorials, documents, letters and notes in the public service? How could we possibly assign important offices and heavy responsibilities to someone who cannot even write fluently?
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I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.
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We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.
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If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.
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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
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To change what you get, you must change who you are.
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Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.
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The fighting back by indigenous people started in 1900: OK, they've cornered us. Our population is almost gone; they've defeated us. From there, the modern Indian rights movement started, and it was a very hard fight, with a lot of stuff going against them.
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Akhnaten is kind of a dark, kind of mysterious character. We don't know a lot about him - a lot of information on him was lost. But he obviously was a kind of iconoclast of him time. I guess I'm attracted to people like that. Like [Albert] Einstein also, who radically changed our way of thinking about the world we live in.
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I love IMDB. I love that people all over the country get that into it. When I was a kid, you literally had to go to the theater and stare at the poster to see who the hell was involved.
