Allison Anders Quotes

I think when I got drawn to film, I didn't know it was a business. I mean, like most filmmakers, I probably saw more films than a lot of people when I was a kid. But I watched them on TV as well. I was no purist about it. I spent lots of time in movie theaters, but I also watched a lot of films on TV.

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• Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
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• I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.

  

  Madeleine Albright
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  • Immigration

• At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
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• And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.

  

  Rainn Wilson
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• For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
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• I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.

  

  Barbara Kruger
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• I pick up on other people's discomfort.

  

  Carice van Houten
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  • Up
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• I spend a lot of time with my characters.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
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• The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the planet down.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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  • Down

• There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• Going to the Academy Awards is something I remember since I was six, when I went with my mom for the first time, 14 with my dad, you know, and there I am, at 22, 23, whatever I was, sitting next to my mom. You know, and then again, there with my dad. Like, there's a beauty to it, and I care deeply about film history.

  

  Laura Dern
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• I've spent more time in hospitals than some fellows ever spend in church.

  

  Rabbit Maranville
  • Time
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• Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

  

  Barbara Bush
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• I have the highest goals for myself. That's going out there and being the best player on the floor every time. That's my mentality. If it's Michael Jordan, you know, that's the mentality I take to the court.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Time
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• I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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• Being a dad and being in the Red Hot Chili Peppers and all the stuff I have to do... The trumpet requires a lot of diligence, and I haven't had the time.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
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• I feel like I've gotten more than a lot of people will ever get. I feel very fortunate.

  

  Samuel Barnett
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• Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera. I thought, 'Hey, this will be a really fun story to tell my grandkids one day, that I auditioned for a soap!'

  

  Teddy Sears
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• There are tons of talented people out there, and we just don't get a chance to get into this system. I want to be a part of that. I want to help these young, diverse, unique voices tell stories.

  

  Jay Ellis
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• You learn after you've been in the business for a while that it's not getting your face recognized that's the payoff. It's having your film remembered.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Business
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  • Recognized

• It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
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  • Job
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• I'm not thinking about me that much anymore. Every time I look, I'm looking for my daughter, you know? If I'm in a store, I'm looking at baby clothes. It's so much cuter to find things for her than to find things for me.

  

  Alessandra Ambrosio
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  • Baby

• Sexual pessimism and hostility toward the pleasures of the flesh are a legacy from the ancient world which Christianity has preserved in a special measure to this day.

  

  Uta Ranke-Heinemann
  • World
  • Special
  • Legacy

• I think when I got drawn to film, I didn't know it was a business. I mean, like most filmmakers, I probably saw more films than a lot of people when I was a kid. But I watched them on TV as well. I was no purist about it. I spent lots of time in movie theaters, but I also watched a lot of films on TV.

  

  Allison Anders
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  • Business