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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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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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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I have an interest in languages and make an effort to learn.
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I am lucky to have three daughters who are completely different. I look at my daughters and I have different relationships with all three and there are parts of each personality that are very special.
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I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
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I cried most days working on the first draft. The last scenes were the hardest. I had a feeling where I wanted to end - the exact note - but I couldn't see how to get there. Sarah Murphy, my editor, asked the right questions to help me. I think of 'The Bear' as a hopeful book.
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I have no problem understanding that women are interested in mascara and the Middle East.
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Ali forced us to take a look at ourselves. This brash young man who thrilled us, angered us, confused and challenged us, ultimately became a silent messenger of peace who taught us that life is best when you build bridges between people, not walls.
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The problem is there are people in this country - maybe 10%, I don't know what the number, maybe 20% on a bad day - who want this President to have an asterisk next to his name in the history books, that he really wasn't President....They can't stand the idea that he is President, and a piece of it is racism. Not that somebody in one racial group doesn't like somebody in another racial group. So what? It is the sense that the white race must rule. That's what racism is. And they can't stand the idea that a man who is not white is President.
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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.
