Allison Anders Quotes
There's a persona that musicians carry with them. I like to find what's under the persona.
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
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Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.
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Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.
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So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind.
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I always choose roles that are, you know, hopefully different from the last role. I don't wanna do the same thing over and over again because that's, well, first of all that's no fun.
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Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations.
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The first lady must be a leader. She must not be a follower.
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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
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I can tell you, if you shoot in the rain you're going to have a lot of voice ADR to do after the movie and voice looping, stuff like that.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
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People who work for me know that family comes first. And I'm fortunate to have a family that is very supportive of the work I do, so I don't have to live two separate lives.
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The big talent is persistence.
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I always go home to Buffalo in the offseason. I really enjoy my home town.
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I myself was a wedding photographer when I was, like, 16.
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Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.
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What's green, hangs on a wall and whistles?
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Follow this you bitches.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.
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I remember watching the Twin Towers collapse. Because it was another country and looked like a film, I just sort of thought, 'Oh.' I didn't think that much. Then three days later, it hit me. I was in a terrible state, and I was tearful for three or four days.
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In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.
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People avoid the telephone because it's easier to text. Calls can be awkward - you interrupt each other; you can't quite hear someone. But the advantage is you get to hear someone else's voice. You find out whether or not you can have a fluid conversation or if it's stilted and peculiar.
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There's a persona that musicians carry with them. I like to find what's under the persona.
